For this code: x: swym 0: setl $9,#1F 1: setl $8,#1B2F setl $7,0xFF9F setl $6,#1F3A 9: setl $5,#1B setl $4,#1A1B setl $3,0x9F setl $2,0x9B setl $1,0x1F setl $0,0x1b Assembled with default options, you get this disassembly: /tmp/x.o: file format elf64-mmix Disassembly of section .text: 0000000000000000 <x>: 0: fd000000 swym 0,0,0 4: e3090000 setl $9,0x0 8: e3081b2f setl $8,0x1b2f c: e307ff9f setl $7,0xff9f 10: e3061f3a setl $6,0x1f3a 14: e3050000 setl $5,0x0 18: e3041a1b setl $4,0x1a1b 1c: e303009f setl $3,0x9f 20: e302009b setl $2,0x9b 24: e301001f setl $1,0x1f 28: e300001b setl $0,0x1b Note the misassembly of the insns setting $9 and $5 respectively.
See <URL:http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2006-01/msg00005.html>. If there are other misassembled cases, they'll have a new PR.