Re: [Nasm-devel] [PATCH 6/7] AVX-512: Change the data type for instruction flags

[Cyrill G. <gor...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:17:17PM -0700, anonymous coward wrote:
> 
> You already need more than 64 bits to properly map
> all existing instructions to their CPUID features (and
> in some case you will need to make up a flag, since
> CPUID lacks a few of them, e.g. hinting NOPs, hints
> for branches, PAUSE, etc.).
> 
> So instead of just widening from 32 to 64 bits, you'll
> need a real bit vector, with more than 64 bits.
> 
> Also, this would be a change that you would want to
> make on the main tree, not the AVX-512 branch.

I knew this day would come once :( Will check on weekend
(I hope time will permits) if there not that massive changes
needed for generic bitmaps support, sigh...

	Cyrill