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| From | Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace |
| Date | 2015-08-03 13:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <pTlN0-1eF-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 11:08:07AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> For those of us suffering OCDs and all, its a good change though. The
> alfabet song does go: A, B, C, D etc.. after all. Not: A, C, D, B ...
... except that x86 encoding orders regs like it was originally: AX,
CX, DX, BX, ... Don't ask me why - looks like someone thought that the
C (count) and D (double precision - AX extension) registers were more
important than B (base).
Or someone was simply illiterate.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply.
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[PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-08-03 10:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-03 11:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-08-03 11:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> - 2015-08-03 11:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-08-04 03:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-08-03 13:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH] x86: Clean up files of Intel Processor Trace Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> - 2015-08-04 03:20 +0200
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