Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:28:52 +0000
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: allegro with DJGPP V2.01
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Mark Habersack wrote:
> It's certainly not a bug. New GAS is just more picky than before. It complains
> if operand sizes don't match that announced in instruction mnemonic. For
> example if you issue:
>     movw   $5, %eax
> it'll fail to match the line to some existing instruction. The problem exists
> only in .S and .s files as GCC generates correct code.
> 

And inline assembly code, as gcc just passes it through in general (it does massage extended asm 
a little, but you can still naff the code).

Bill