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Date:      Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:53:26 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org,  svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r306319 - head/sys/i386/i386
Message-ID:  <20160926164406.T806@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <0100015762ed107c-206ced2e-2389-462f-afe0-cec7d6c34fb8-000000@email.amazonses.com>
References:  <201609251839.u8PIdO7t050380@repo.freebsd.org> <0100015762ed107c-206ced2e-2389-462f-afe0-cec7d6c34fb8-000000@email.amazonses.com>

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On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Colin Percival wrote:

> On 09/25/16 11:39, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> Author: bde
>> Date: Sun Sep 25 18:39:24 2016
>> New Revision: 306319
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306319
>>
>> Log:
>>   Minor fixes for 160-bit disassembly:
>
> I thought the x86 architecture was limited to 120-bit instructions?

Oops.

Is 120 the exact limit on instruction length is is that just for prefixes?
I think the instruction fetch pipeline was 16 bytes, but it is now often
32 or 64.

Bruce



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