PATCH: Allow cs/ds in 64bit for branch hints

[H. J. Lu]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 07:22:44PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:12:51PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 12:06:56PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > cs/ds can be used as branch hints in 64bit. I will check this in
> > > shortly.
> > 
> > This is the actual patch I checked in.
> 
> Why?  IMHO nobody should be using cs; je 1f instead of je,pn 1f
> which already works in 64bit (as well as je,pt 1f).
> 

Gcc 3.3, 3.4 are 3.5 are still doing "cs ; jxx yyy" for EM64T.
Assembler should support it.

FYI, I was told by our compiler people that branch hints didn't provide
any performance benefit and it would hurt performance on P4/EM64T due
to the code size increase. I am trying to verify that.


H.J.