On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: >Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:30:56 +0200 >From: Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Re: i386 kernel not included? > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:51:46 -0500, Thomas Dodd wrote: > >> example >> i686 athlon >> movl -24(%edp), %edx andl -24(%edp), %eax >> andl %edx, %eax >> >> >> movl %eax, %edx imull $100, %eax, %edx >> movl %edx, %eax > >Eh? First EDX=EAX, then EAX=EDX? =:-}
My guess is it is simply another way of doing a NOP, possibly better than an actual NOP for scheduling on the i686. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc.
