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.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-13 12:29 Jan Beulich [this message]
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2005-04-13 23:35 Marc Espie
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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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