Re: [PATCH 5/14] i386 / Use early clobber to eliminate rotate in desc

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:54:11PM -0700, [email protected] 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
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