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Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: further template encoding adjustments
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich at suse dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:00:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86: further template encoding adjustments
- References: <7e63e19e-ac01-5ce6-d403-c41c8aaa7ca1@suse.com>
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 1:55 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> Especially for operands (of which there may be up to 5 right now,
> and the number is only going to grow) it is quite wasteful to have
> unnecessarily many attribute bits. The long term goal is to get this
> count down to no more than 32. The two patches here are another two
> small steps towards this.
>
> 1: fold SReg{2,3}
> 2: make RegMem an opcode modifier
>
OK.
Thanks.
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H.J.