From: korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: allegro and djgpp v2.01
Date: 21 Oct 1996 18:00:33 GMT
Organization: Cal Berkeley-- Space Sciences Lab
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References: <Pine DOT NEB DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 961020134750 DOT 24934F-100000 AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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In article <Pine DOT NEB DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 961020134750 DOT 24934F-100000 AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>,
Mark Habersack  <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl> wrote:
>  1) Find all such errors and correct the last letter of the mnemonic to match
>     size of operands, following this pattern:
>         b  - for byte (8 bit) operands
>         w  - for word (16 bit) operands
>         l  - for long (32 bit) operands

You've got this backwards.  In previous versions of gas, the register
operand sizes were ignored.  So "movw $0, %eax" would have (correctly IMHO)
compiled to the same as "movw $0, %ax"  So what he really needs to do
is to correct the operands to match the size of the mnemonic.

Eric




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