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Re: gas generating bad code for i386


> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:39:39 -0500
> From: Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>

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> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> >    Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2000 14:17:01 -0500
> >    From: Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>
> >
> > Please do not send base64 messages to this mailing list.  Send plain
> > text.
> 
> What I sent was plain text, not sure what you received.

It was not.  I have appended your message, in full, to this email.
Please turn off base64 encoding.

> > I'm surprised that the instruction `je 4' ever did what you want it to
> > do.  To me that is a jump to the absolute address 4.
> >
> > Use something like `je .+4' instead.
> 
> According to the gas info pages, Node: i386-Memory:
> 
>    Absolute (as opposed to PC relative) call and jump operands must be
> prefixed with `*'.  If no `*' is specified, `as' always chooses PC
> relative addressing for jump/call labels.

Yeah, but do "je" and the other conditional branches fit this pattern?
It looks to me like this rule applies to "jmp" and "call" only.

Andrew.



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