Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 15:26:05 -0500
Message-Id: <199703022026.PAA21504@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: bray AT biomed DOT med DOT yale DOT edu
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <5fcg13$men@news.ycc.yale.edu> (bray@biomed.med.yale.edu)
Subject: Re: Annoying error thingy


> -S option and gcc converts that line into "movb -5(%ebp), %fs:(%ebx)". So 
> what's wrong here, I don't get it. If anyone would care to enlighten me I 

You're trying to move data between two separate indexed memory
locations in one opcode.  You can only have one indexed memory
location per opcode (except string moves, which are special), so you
have to move it to a register first, then back to memory.