Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/asm/entry/64: use smaller insns

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 05:05:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> so 'as' is clearly just stupid. It already takes the size of the
> constant into account and generates different instructions. Why not
> for the common 32-bit case too?

I think the destination register mandates which insn to use:

        mov $0x12345678, %rdi
        mov $0x12345678, %edi

...

  15:   48 c7 c7 78 56 34 12    mov    $0x12345678,%rdi
  1c:   bf 78 56 34 12          mov    $0x12345678,%edi

and 'as' is perhaps not insolent enough to go and change it when seeing
the 32-bit constant.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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