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Re: i386/asm-4 test: use amd64's natural addressing mode on all OSs


On Aug 15, 2019, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:39 PM Alexandre Oliva <oliva@adacore.com> wrote:

>> If we just use the best-suited way to
>> take the address of a function behind the compiler's back on each
>> target variant, we're less likely to hit unexpected failures.

> Perhaps we should use true absolute address:

But why?  Using absolute addresses is not relevant at all to the test.
We just need some means to take the address of foo without the
compiler's realizing we're doing so.

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