On 07/03/2007 04:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > One could, though, use an indirect jump to achieve, if not as good, at > least most of the effect: > > movl $<patchable>,<reg> > jmp *<reg> > Yeah, but there's this GCC bug: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22448 You can't even dereference labels in an ASM statement. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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