Sure it does... it takes time. Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 08:34:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I wouldn't really call it a "side effect". Perhaps the right thing >> here is to say something like "we want to start out with %eflags >> unambiguously clear". >> >> (Note also we have had to CLD earlier because we have already copied >> the command line.) > >Ok, let's make it even more verbose so that people know in the future: > >"... we want to start out with EFLAGS unambiguously clear. That means >DF >in particular (even though we have cleared it earlier after copying the >command line) because GCC expects it." > >How does that sound? > >Also, I was wondering about the whole reasoning behind that: do you >know >why DF=0 is a GCC requirement? I mean, nothing hurts GCC from issuing a >CLD each time? > >Thanks. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
