[PATCH] x86: Warn .insn instruction with length > 15 bytes

[Michael Matz]

> > > > I disagree. It was a warning until you changed it (without me really
> > > > agreeing), and some hypothetical vendor could come and lift the limit,
> > > > on precisely the basis that there are legal encodings exceeding it. I'm
> > > > okay if this can be forced to be an error, but I continue to think that
> > > > it ought to be a warning only by default.
> > > >
> > >
> > > It is an error on both Intel and AMD processors.   There is no
> > > valid reason not to be an error at the moment.
> >
> > Jan gave you one.  I would prefer for the assembler to not be anally
> 
> That is not a valid reason.

Yes it is.

> There is no such processor in the foreseeable future.

Doesn't matter.


Ciao,
Michael.