Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 14:16:01 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
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Subject: Re: GAS is picky
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On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Bill Currie wrote:

>I noticed the new pickyness myself.  Annoying when the code already works, but then the code IS 
>wrong.
In general it's an improvement, but pity that new libc/libm haven't been
checked against compatibility with the new GAS. 

>Unfortunatly, gas still lets you have displacements >127 for jecxz! (had me 
>stumped for a while with mysterious bugs!)
Right, you have to watch what you're writing.  I recently used the emx2aout
tool and it works OK - try it!

>> This world is totally FUGAZI!FU is obvious but what's GAZI?
Well, the expression comes from the American Army vocabulary. It was commonly
used by soldiers during the World Wars to describe the situation on the front.
As it was, of course, forbidden to write clearly about it, soldiers used a
special expression: SNAFU.  It stands for Situation Normall All Fugazi. And
Fugazi by itself means (sorry) fucked up, screwed up.

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