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

[Jan Beulich]

On 06.02.2024 17:28, H.J. Lu wrote:
> With as_bad, assembler will continue to assemble, just not generate
> an object file.   We ran into this with APX.  Not everyone checks
> assembler warnings closely.  It led to mysterious crashes.   I am
> not against it if someone else implements an assembler option to
> turn this error into a warning.

But it should be the other way around: The compiler could pass an
option to promote the (default) warning to an error. And if you
don#t pay attention to warning for assembly files, you could pass
the same option as well. Without harming anyone else with anything
that has worked before.

Jan