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From: Andy Walker <ja_walker@earthlink.net>
To: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar),
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Subject: Re: Sythetic registers: modrm/gas question.
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 05:04:00 -0000
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On Sunday 05 January 2003 05:42 am, Robert Dewar wrote:
<snip>
> Yes, of course it "just knows", that's why your guess that gcc is
> generating poor code seems ill-informed. It is inconceivable that *any*
> compiler would use four byte offsets to access the local stack frame.

Thank you for the answer.

My question here was not about compilers.  It was about assembler syntax.  I 
have reached the point where I am changing the machine description to handle 
Synthetic registers.  NASM requires a "byte" modifier in this instance, and 
it has been so long since I used the Borland Turbo Assembler on a 486, that I 
thought it prudent to check.  ( There does not seem to be a manual for gas).

Andy.