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Re: A bug in IA32 assembler
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:58:33PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:48:57PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > # gcc -c xmm.s
> > xmm.s: Assembler messages:
> > xmm.s:11: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movaps'
> >
> > Which one is valid,
> >
> > movaps (A.3),%xmm0
> >
> > or
> > movaps ($A.3),%xmm0
>
> Both, I suppose, although the second one is trickery to get a
Are they the same? FYI, gcc seems to generate both from asm statements.
> '$' into a label.
>
> movaps A.3,%xmm0
>
> is really what you want; Your added parentheses just act as they
> normally do in arithmetic expressions.
Right now, gas treats $A.3 as a label in
movaps ($A.3),%xmm0
That is the relocation is against `$A.3'. Also it doesn't allow
movaps $A.3,%xmm0
Do you have a fix for it?
Thanks.
H.J.