> On Nov 20, 2015, at 1:24 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 11/20/2015 06:05 AM, Richard Henderson wrote: > >> ... >> It seems to me that it would be better to remove the feature, forcing >> what must be an extremely small number of users to audit and update to >> extended asm. > That might be a little drastic. Though if we want to go this direction, the > first step is to deprecate for a major release cycle. It would be > interesting to see how much stuff would complain/break.
I would expect: a lot. I've seen plenty of people writing asm statements (in small quantities, admittedly) who have never heard of extended asm. paul