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Re: [PATCH] x86/Intel: accept mandated operand order for vcvt{,u}si2s{d,s}


>>> On 21.05.15 at 17:11, <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 21.05.15 at 14:07, <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I checked with our SDM people and was told that
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Intel Software Developer Manual only governs the output side of the binary
>>> form of instruction byte stream matches what HW expect. Each assembly
>>> tool product has its own implementation of transforming the input
>>> language/dialect into the output stream.
>>> ---
>>
>> Of course. But I don't think you're going to deny that what it (or
>> really its ancient predecessors) specified has been taken by
>> assembler implementations as reference.
> 
> Intel SDM is NOT an assembler reference manual.  Please stop
> making it into one.

It's not, I agree. But in the absence of any other one, it is (and
imo ought to be) used as a reference anyway.

Jan


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