From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'DJ Delorie'" <dj@redhat.com>, <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: <binutils@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements inmemoryoperands
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 16:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANOpvqnJNeO925B00000271@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505061640.j46Geboc014356@greed.delorie.com>
----Original Message----
>From: DJ Delorie
>Sent: 06 May 2005 17:41
>> What if someone wants to write self-modifying code that stores
>> varying offsets into that field?
>
> Being one of those people, the answer is "use .byte".
>
> We don't trust assemblers (or linkers) to be dumb any more.
Oh well, it seems a shame from the
future-proofing-clean-design-and-maintainability point of view to have to
hard code opcode values as hex constants in your program when you have a
handy assembler right there that could do the work for you.....
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-06 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 16:40 [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements in memoryoperands Jan Beulich
2005-05-06 16:44 ` DJ Delorie
2005-05-06 16:50 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2005-05-06 16:55 ` [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements inmemoryoperands DJ Delorie
2005-05-06 16:50 ` [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements in memoryoperands H. J. Lu
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