[PATCH] x86: Clean up and improve FPU inline assembly
Joseph Myers
josmyers@redhat.com
Fri Sep 19 18:46:35 GMT 2025
On Fri, 19 Sep 2025, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
> On 19/09/25 11:05, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> > Clean up and improve x86 FPU inline assembly:
> >
> > * Remove obsolete "*&" GCC asm memory operand workaround
> >
> > * Use %v prefix to emit VEX prefixed insns for AVX targets
> >
> > * Use \t and \n\t separators consistently
>
> I think this is not a really profitable change, it does not change
> code generation and makes the history a bit harder to follow.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
>
> For the long double implementation we may also check if the assembly
> ones are still better than the generic ones.
Generic implementations for ldbl-96 mostly don't exist where there are
architecture-specific ones.
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Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com
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