[PATCH 2/N, MPX, x86_64] Intel MPX support in glibc for x86_64

[Richard Henderson]

On 04/09/2014 05:12 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be just as easy to do
>>
>>   .byte 0x66,0x0f,0x1b,0x84,0x24; .long LR_BND_OFFSET
>>
>> after all, you know how and where that offset is going to be encoded.
> 
> Sure.  We can do that after verifying LR_BND_OFFSET >= 0x80.

No need for that, since the previous bytes have encoded the form that expects a
4-byte offset.  The offset can be anything at all within those bytes.


r~