Landing: 17d569a13a9f

Project / Subsystem

binutils / x86/apx

Date

2026-09-25

Author

Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>

Commit

17d569a13a9f97b33eebe587c0a5c0dc9375427e

Source

public_inbox

Perf win

No

Breaking

No

All attributes

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binutils
subsystem
x86/apx
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commit_hash
17d569a13a9f97b33eebe587c0a5c0dc9375427e
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public_inbox
headline
Limit REX2 payload printing in x86 disassembly
tldr
Disassembler output for x86 APX instructions now more accurately reflects REX2 encoding.
author
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
outcome
committed
performance_win
false
breaking_change
false
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tags
  • • x86
  • • disassembler
  • • optimization
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date
2026-09-25T00:00:00.000Z

The x86 disassembler has been updated to limit the printing of the REX2 payload when its bits are properly consumed. This change ensures the output more closely matches the original instruction encoding, and simplifies existing conditional logic.