Re: [PATCH -tip 3/6 V4.1] x86: instruction decorder API

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Apr 16 2009 - 20:10:37 EST


Jim Keniston wrote:

It looks like AT2(Ev,Gv) would yield the same bits as AT2(Gv,Ev). It'd
be nice not to lose the operand-order information. And we'd have to
make clear whether which notation we're using -- src,dest as in the gnu
assembler, or dest,src as in the AMD (and Intel?) manuals.


Since the information would come from the manuals, I would recommend following them (dst first.)

-hpa

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