On 11/12/2019 09:27, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The legacy / compatibility mode ES, CS, SS, and DS overrides are null
> prefixes in 64-bit mode, i.e. they in particular don't cancel an
> earlier FS or GS one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

null is a very overloaded term.  What you mean here is simply "ignored".

In attempting to confirm/test this, I've found yet another curiosity
with instruction length calculations when reordering a rex prefix and
legacy prefix.  Objdump gets it wrong, but the instruction boundaries
according to singlestep are weird.

~Andrew

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