Re: ASM flags in general

[Andy Lutomirski]

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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