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Re: [RFC/RFA] Proper mnemonics for VIA PadLock (i386) instructions
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:43:10PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Because there is already code out there that uses the hyphen. The
> reason for preferring the hyphenated names over the unhyphenated names
> is that the former are used by the VIA documentation.
I don't like the idea of putting '-' in mnemonic_chars. I think it has
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.
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