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Re: shifts and rotates by 1 on ix86


On Wed, 10 May 2000, Alexander Sokolov wrote:

> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
> > That's not such a bad idea, particularly if the directive also enabled 
> > warnings when someone tried to use an instruction not available on the
> > chosen cpu.
> 
> Good idea. This would make gas behave like masm or tasm which do not allow
> the instructions unless the cpu that supports them is explicitly 
> specified. I think it's easy to implement such behaviour in gas. 

I also think it's easy to do, but I don't have the time to implement
it.  Glad to see you offer.  ;-)

Regards, Alan Modra
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