Please, really, make `-masm=intel` the default for x86

[LIU Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>]

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I am a Windows developer and I have been writing x86 and amd64 assembly for more than ten years. One 
annoying thing about GCC is that, for x86 if I need to write I piece of inline assembly then I have 
to do it twice: one in AT&T syntax and one in Intel syntax.


The AT&T syntax is an awkward foreign dialect, designed originally for PDP-11 and spoken by bumpkins 
that knew little about x86 or ARM. No official Intel or AMD documentation ever adopts it. The syntax 
is terrible. Consider:

    movl $1, %eax  ; k; moves $1 into EAX
                   ; but in high-level languages we expect '%eax = $1',
                   ; so it goes awkwardly backwards.

If this looks fine to you, please re-consider:

   cmpl $1, %eax
   jg .L1          ; does this mean 'jump if $1 is greater than %eax'
                   ; or something stupidly reversed?

If CMP still looks fine to you, please consider how to write VFMADD231PD in AT&T syntax, really.


I have been tired of such inconsistency. For God's sake, please deprecate it.


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Best regards,
LIU Hao

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