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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 07:52:04 -0500
From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: djasm: size of immediate unknown error message
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-: The error is because djasm doesn't know the size of var. If I use
-: "movb", movw" or movd" instead of "mov" all is fine.

That's right.  The assembler relies on the suffix to know what size
the immediate operand should be (unless the size can be inferred
from other arguments).

-: Now, this error message is pretty hard to understand, until you are
-: aware of djasm particularities. 

Yes.  djasm is not for the innocent.

-: How hard would it be to improve it to say ``Size of destination of
-: immediate value is unknown. Use "movb", "movw" or "movd" to specify
-: size of value''?

I agree the error message is cryptic; I will look into some improvements.