Re: PATCH - assembler glitches

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 21:31:24 -0300

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?

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