On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 09:10:32AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> In the future, if x86 ISA is expanded and add a legacy prefix
> groups,
Very unlikely.
> then we have to add new insn_prefix_field data structure, which
> size will not depend on NUM_INSN_FIELD_BYTES, but still depend on
> MAX_LEGACY_PREFIX_GROUPS (and that will be 5).
Isn't that what I'm saying too?
Bottomline is, legacy prefixes should not use insn_field but a separate
element which array size is independent of insn_byte_t bytes[4].
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