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Re: i386 inline-asm string functions - some questions


On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 06:38:50AM +0500, Denis Zaitsev wrote:
> Ok.  BTW, I was looking around a little - and it seems that "m" suits
> better here than "X" - we deals with a memory operand, not with "Any
> operand whatsoever" (according to the documentation).  But you suggest
> "X" (and this is not the first time).  Why?

Because "m" implies (1) that the address must be valid and
(2) that the address is used.


r~


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