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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: <tg@66h.42h.de>,<binutils@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] Proper mnemonics for VIA PadLock (i386) instructions
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s25d1e96.085@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com> (raw)

>>> Thorsten Glaser <tg@66h.42h.de> 13.04.05 12:42:35 >>>
>Alan Modra dixit:
>
>>a high likelihood of breaking other valid assembly.  The gas app.c code
>>has a nasty habit of completely removing whitespace once past the
>>mnemonic of an instruction, and it can get confused.  Something like
>>
>> addr16 mov -2,%eax
>>
>>might fail if '-' is a valid mnemonic char.
>
>Can't gas be fixed, then? Sounds like the "obvious" thing to do to me.
>
>Alternatively, we'd need to make a way for a dash to be only
>recognised as part of a mnemonic if followed by a letter.

That wouldn't help either:

	.equiv two, 2
	movl -two(%ebx), %eax

would still fail.

             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-13 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-13 12:29 Jan Beulich [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-13 23:35 Marc Espie
     [not found] <s25d1e96.084@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
2005-04-13 15:20 ` Thorsten Glaser
2005-04-14  1:26   ` Alan Modra
2005-04-16 11:40     ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-18  4:44       ` Alan Modra
2005-04-18 21:01         ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-12 19:15 Mark Kettenis
2005-04-12 20:32 ` Michal Ludvig
2005-04-12 20:43   ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-13  0:38     ` Alan Modra
2005-04-13 10:43       ` Thorsten Glaser
2005-04-13 18:55       ` Mark Kettenis
2005-04-13 19:29         ` H. J. Lu
2005-04-13 19:51           ` Mark Kettenis

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