Re: [RFC PATCH v2 20/21] x86: Add support for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon May 16 2022 - 17:44:36 EST
On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 09:32:55PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > The compiler always generates this specific instruction sequence.
>
> Yes, but there are several ways to encode 'cmpl imm,-6(reg)'.
Yes, but we don't care. This *always* uses the 32bit immediate form.
Even if the immediate is small.