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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Another security vulnerability Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:14:11 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2024Mar27.191411@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> References: <utpoi2$b6to$1@dont-email.me> <2024Mar25.082534@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <20240326192941.0000314a@yahoo.com> <uu0kt1$2nr9j$1@dont-email.me> <VpVMN.731075$p%Mb.618266@fx15.iad> Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:25:38 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dd96cb78367ba2d846b5f6040a81f592"; logging-data="3160632"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18blsC62bNR7xOhkqZzhvK5" Cancel-Lock: sha1:8DATGjs/03sG4Gf/aW9DeiMRhIw= X-newsreader: xrn 10.11 Bytes: 1798 EricP <ThatWouldBeTelling@thevillage.com> writes: >It doesn't need to eat opcode space if you only support one data type, >64-bit ints, and one address mode, [register]. >Other address modes can be calculated using LEA. >Since these are rare instructions to solve a particular problem, >they won't be used that often, so a few extra instructions shouldn't matter. You lost me here. Do you mean that a load with address mode [register] is considered to be a non-address load and not followed by the data-dependent prefetcher? So how would an address load be encoded if the natural expression would be [register]? - anton -- 'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.' Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>