Re: [GIT PULL] x86 cleanups for v5.7

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Apr 02 2020 - 09:40:58 EST


On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 05:16:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Nobody else has a working compiler to even test that patch, because
> even upstream tip-of-the-day llvm mis-generates code (I have a patch
> that makes it generate ok code, but that one isn't good enough to
> actually go upstream in llvm).

Btw, looking at this:

https://reviews.llvm.org/rG50cac248773

and talking to a gcc guy (CCed), it should be also relatively easy to do
the fallthrough variant in gcc too so you could open a feature request
for that in the gcc bugzilla.

HTH.

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