Re: BUILD_SMP_TIMER_INTERRUPT not needed movl

Olaf Titz (olaf@bigred.inka.de)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:39:21 +0200

> Because I'm anal. The trouble is that intel has changed the semantics of
> "pushl %esp" before. It's a fundamentally flawed thing to do, as it's not
> clear whether the pushed value is the one that was active before the
> instruction or the decremented one.

IMHO "push %esp" is just as evil as its C equivalent "a[--i]=i", which
is a classical "undefined result" item. Not so much anal as good
style. :-)

olaf

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