On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 12:08:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Especially since that's some of the ugliest inline asm ever due to the > nasty BX handling. Yeah, about that: why doesn't gcc handle that for us like it would handle a clobbered register? I mean, it *should* know that BX is live when building with -fPIC... The .ifnc thing looks really silly. Hmmm. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html