Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 14:05:29 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Bugs in 386 GAS?

> Yep, gas is buggy.  Always use an explicit size suffix like in "addb",
> "subl", or "movw".
>
> This has recently been added to the FAQ.

Look this up in section 17.1 of the FAQ list (available as faq102.zip
from the same place you get DJGPP).