Re: [BUGFIX] Fix AES-NI CTR optimization compiling failure withgas 2.16.1

[David Miller]

From: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:37:33 +0200

> Eventually you'll port the entire assembler into macros, as
> instructions are introduced more frequently that people upgrade their
> assemblers.  Maybe we should disable the new features and warn people
> (and distros) to upgrade their tools instead.

I totally and completely disagree.

It would have taken more than a year to get Niagara cpu support out to
people if I had done what you are suggesting.

And here we're talking about one instruction in one specialized case
in a very piece of crypto module assembler.
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