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Re: Gas is broken for x86-64
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:04:29PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:00:27PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:47:58PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > > Hi Jan,
> > > >
> > > > Your i386 opcode change breaks x86-64. I got
> > > >
> > > > [hjl@gnu-64 gas]$ cat /tmp/x.s
> > > > movzb (%rax),%edx
> > > > [hjl@gnu-64 gas]$ ./as-new -o x.o /tmp/x.s
> > > > /tmp/x.s: Assembler messages:
> > > > /tmp/x.s:1: Error: no such instruction: `movzb (%rax),%edx'
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Your patch
> > >
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-11/msg00033/binutils-mainline-x86-intel-syntax.patch
> > >
> > > removed movzb. It is wrong.
> >
> > BTW, do you know what other instructions you have removed? We can't
> > remove any of them unless we have a very good reason.
> >
>
> I checked in a patch to restore "movzb":
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils-cvs/2004-11/msg00045.html
Then please add this to the testsuite.
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Daniel Jacobowitz