On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Richard Henderson <r...@redhat.com> wrote: > > A fair point. Though honestly, I was hoping that this feature would mostly be > used for conditions that are "weird" -- that is, not normally describable by > arithmetic at all. Otherwise, why are you using inline asm for it?
I could easily imagine using some of the combinations for atomic operations. For example, doing a "lock decl", and wanting to see if the result is negative or zero. Sure, it would be possible to set *two* booleans (ZF and SF), but there's a contiional for "BE".. Linus