Re: [PATCH 4/4] Twofish cipher - x86_64 assembler

[Dag Arne Osvik]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 15:16, Joachim Fritschi wrote:
>> This patch adds the twofish x86_64 assembler routine.

>> +/* Defining a few register aliases for better reading */
> 
> Maybe you can read it now better, but for everybody else it is extremly 
> confusing. It would be better if you just used the original register names.

I'd agree if you said this code could benefit from further readability
improvements.  But you're arguing against one.

Too bad AMD kept the old register names when defining AMD64..

-- 
  Dag Arne
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