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Re: setsockopt() compat issue



On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:30:28PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 02:07:36PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >>Hey! Don't shoot the messenger.
> >>But no, I wouldn't consider them all "native". The size of the registers 
> >>is what I'd define as native.
> >
> >The size of the registers depend on the instruction on x86_64 ...
> 
> Don't you really mean the number of bits used from the register depends 
> on the instruction?

Not really. For 8 bits instructions e.g. %al and %ah really behaves as
2 independant registers.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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