On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:54:11PM -0700, zach@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Use an early clobber on addr to avoid the extra rorl instruction at the > end of _set_tssldt_desc. I would suggest to just use C for this. I do this on x86-64 and I don't think there is any reason to use this hard to maintain code for it. It's probably a left over from Linus first experiments with inline assembly, similar to the old string.h and by now so obsolete it doesn't even stink anymore. -Andi
