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Re: [RFC] asm goto

Richard Henderson wrote: 

Are we sure that it wouldn't be better to offer a feature that isn't
extending asm? We're just putting in a specific feature that will be
abused in exactly one way, forever tying this kernel to whatever
versions of GCC implement this feature.


I'm fairly certain that someone will come up with a use for
this feature other than nop patching.
Agreed. We've been asked for this kind of functionality in the past from random users, but have largely ignored those requests until now.

Jeff

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