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Re: RFC: [PATCH] X86: Add pseudo prefixes to control encoding

On 11/11/2016 10:34 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:


Control instruction length is one usage of pseudo prefixes.
Specifying instruction length will make assembler unnecessarily
more complex,  like how to encode "vmovaps (%rax),%xmm2"
with 7 bytes.


Perhaps turn it into assertion of instruction length instead?

Florian
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