Re: [PATCH v3 11/11] x86: support i386 with Clang

[Thomas Gleixner]

Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm glad I looked myself at this.

> We also don't want to swap the use of "=q" with "=r". For 64b, it
> doesn't matter. For 32b, it's possible that a 32b register without a 8b
> lower alias (i.e. ESI, EDI, EBP) is selected which the assembler will
> then reject.

The above is really garbage.

We don't want? It's simply not possible to do so, because ...

64b,32b,8b. For heavens sake is it too much asked to write a changelog
with understandable wording instead of ambiguous abbreviations?

There is no maximum character limit for changelogs.

Thanks,

        tglx