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Re: [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements inmemoryoperands
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- To: JBeulich at novell dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:40:37 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements inmemoryoperands
- References: <s27baa29.000@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>
> What if someone wants to write self-modifying code that stores
> varying offsets into that field?
Being one of those people, the answer is "use .byte".
We don't trust assemblers (or linkers) to be dumb any more.