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Re:Rust's unsafe pointer types need an overhaul by titzer on Sunday March 20, 2022 @12:12PM (#30743887)
Flags are treated as just another kind of dependency in the register renaming phase, though it's a lot hairier because they probably need to be tracked on an individual (per-bit) basis.

As a sibling commenter noted, a conditional call is basically just a macro for a (negated) conditional branch jump over a call instruction, but with a different prediction.

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