From: ovek AT arcticnet DOT no (Ove Kaaven)
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Subject: Re: GAS segment override
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 06:31:43 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Johan Levin wrote:
>
>> Allegro does it this way:
>> 	.byte 0x2e
>> 	movw	___djgpp_ds_alias, %ax
>> 
>> But I'd like a neater wayt than to use '.byte'.
>> '.byte' looks like a temporary solution.
>
>It's not temporary, it *is* the solution.  See section 17.2 of the DJGPP 
>FAQ list (v2/faq210b.zip), it explicitely tells you to do it the Allegro 
>way (unless you want to get in trouble).

I doubt. The trouble is with

mov cs:mem

not with

cs        <-- separate and valid instruction
mov mem

as far as I know, and using .byte is an unnecessary complication for a
workaround that is already built-in (the separate "cs" instruction).
Is this wrong?