From: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Message-Id: <199801112045.AA262511537@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: Stack Alignment
To: bcurrie AT tssc DOT co DOT nz (Bill Currie)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 12:45:37 PST
Cc: dj AT delorie DOT com, eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <34B91FA7.341C@tssc.co.nz>; from "Bill Currie" at Jan 12, 98 8:38 am
Reply-To: andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com
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> > >>>     andb    $0xf8, %eax             /* align to 8-byte boundary */

> Hey! gas is going to barf on that!!! (operand size mismatch) that should
> be either:
That was what I thought originally too, so I tried assembling it.
Worked fine.  I remember the 'xorb %eax' choking in the 2.01 release.
Maybe its a difference between gas 2.7  and 2.8.  I don't have 2.7
so I can't check.

Andy

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