Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 09:36:38 +0000
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: GAS is picky
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Mark Habersack wrote:
> 
> It seems that the new GAS shipped with the latest alpha release is more picky
> than its previous versions. I think GAS is now looking at the argument size
> more carefully. I was compiling libc from snapshot 960919 and got at several
> spots error messages about unrecognized i386 operand combinations. It was in
> majority of cases the following:
> 
>    movl   %%something, %%ax
> 
> There were also several spots in libm that had the same problem with operands
> size.

I noticed the new pickyness myself.  Annoying when the code already works, but then the code IS 
wrong.

Unfortunatly, gas still lets you have displacements >127 for jecxz! (had me stumped for a while 
with mysterious bugs!)

Mark,
> This world is totally FUGAZI!FU is obvious but what's GAZI?

Bill