Re: Do we still care about compilers without __seg_fs and __seg_gs support??

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 03:24:21PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> As of Linux 6.16, we require:
> 
> 	gcc 8.1 or higher
> 	clang 15.0.0 or higher
> 
> If my reading of the release notes is correct, then both versions *should*
> supported __seg_fs and __seg_gs, but we have:
> 
> config CC_HAS_NAMED_AS
>         def_bool $(success,echo 'int __seg_fs fs; int __seg_gs gs;' | $(CC) -x
> c - -S -o /dev/null)
>         depends on CC_IS_GCC
> 
> We don't even try on clang.
> 
> Being able to actually rely on the compiler for this would make a lot of
> things cleaner.  For one thing, I'm trying to untangle a bunch of ugliness in
> the code sharing between realmode and proper flat mode code...
> 
> Uros, you seem to have touched this code as recently as earlier this year; any
> thoughts?
> 
> What about the LLVM people, any insights?

Trying to use __seg_fs or __seg_gs in certain cases crashes the X86
backend.

  https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/93449

Is there anyone on AMD or Intel's LLVM teams that could look into
solving that? Nick pinged a couple of Intel's folks but it does not look

Cheers,
Nathan