Re: ASM flags in general

[H. Peter Anvin]

There are certainly applications.  That just isn't one of them.

On July 27, 2015 4:58:29 PM PDT, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:56 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Sure... but now you have to wrap things in stac/clac.  I'm not sure I
>see the point since the code is already pretty much optimal.
>
>Ick.  I forgot about that.
>
>It would benefit all the users who aren't using the _ex functions,
>though.  And, if there are enough of those, it just might be worth
>trying to postprocess object files to collapse adjacent stac and clac
>instances, or just to teach the alternatives code to nop them out if
>they're redundant.
>
>--Andy

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