[PATCH -tip 3/6 V4.1] x86: instruction decorder API

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Fri Apr 17 00:10:00 GMT 2009


Jim Keniston wrote:
> 
> It looks like AT2(Ev,Gv) would yield the same bits as AT2(Gv,Ev).  It'd
> be nice not to lose the operand-order information.  And we'd have to
> make clear whether which notation we're using -- src,dest as in the gnu
> assembler, or dest,src as in the AMD (and Intel?) manuals.
> 

Since the information would come from the manuals, I would recommend 
following them (dst first.)

	-hpa



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