Re: [RFC, PATCHv1 15/28] x86: detect 5-level paging support

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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.

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