Pentium4 branch hints
Doug Evans
dje@transmeta.com
Wed Jun 6 06:54:00 GMT 2001
Alan Modra writes:
> Inspired by Jan Hubicka's recent patches to teach gcc about Pentium4
> branch hints, I decided to teach gas about them too. Allows a line
> like:
>
> cs je dest
>
> Of course, you can still do this sort of thing by
>
> cs
> je dest
>
> but if multiple prefixes are involved, it's better to give them to gas
> on one line. gas will make sure they are emitted in the proper order.
While using `cs' is ok implementation-wise, at the assembly level ... blech.
There's no mnemonic for remembering which is which.
Don't suppose you want to also accept something like "taken", "not-taken",
as well (or some abbreviation thereof), and have those printed
for disassembly, do you?
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