Re: [PATCH] fix ldcw inline assembler

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> I guess... I don't understand the gcc clobber semantics on asm()
> anymore, I'm just thinking of that stupid bug with ip_fast_csum we saw
> on parisc a few years ago...

These are in fact subtle and complex.  There were two or three bugs
that appeared in the transition to 4.4.0 as a result of the change
to the new register allocator.  In paricular, using clobbers of hard
registers in call patterns caused a number of problems.

Dave
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