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Re: Gas is broken for x86-64
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:00:27PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:47:58PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > Your i386 opcode change breaks x86-64. I got
> >
> > [hjl@gnu-64 gas]$ cat /tmp/x.s
> > movzb (%rax),%edx
> > [hjl@gnu-64 gas]$ ./as-new -o x.o /tmp/x.s
> > /tmp/x.s: Assembler messages:
> > /tmp/x.s:1: Error: no such instruction: `movzb (%rax),%edx'
> >
> >
>
> Your patch
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-11/msg00033/binutils-mainline-x86-intel-syntax.patch
>
> removed movzb. It is wrong.
BTW, do you know what other instructions you have removed? We can't
remove any of them unless we have a very good reason.
H.J.