Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH - assembler glitches | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:31:24 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.vpplus.com> said: > Martin Dalecki wrote: > > The attached patch is sweepping out obvious errors in IA32 assembler > > code. > > Just apply it.
> Using movw with the segment registers, while logically correct, causes > gas to produce size prefix opcodes. Since the segment registers are > always 16-bit, these prefixes are redundant. Using movl tricks gas into > not producing them.
Which versions of gas have that particular bug? -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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