[v6 PATCH 12/21] x86/insn: Support both signed 32-bit and 64-bit effective addresses

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:33:46PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> This is the reason I check the value of long_bytes. If long_bytes is not
> 4, being the only other possible value 8 (perhaps I need to issue an
> error when the value is not any of these values),

Well, maybe I'm a bit too paranoid. Bottom line is, we should do the
address computations exactly like the hardware does them so that there
are no surprises. Doing them with longs looks ok to me.

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