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Re: as/i386 all versions a bit too permissive with ins/outs/lods/stos

From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain at yahoo dot fr>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 14:51:32 -0700
Subject: Re: as/i386 all versions a bit too permissive with ins/outs/lods/stos
References: <20020517144016.17688.qmail@web11805.mail.yahoo.com> <20020518051859.GR2423@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:48:59PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> This behaviour is deliberate.  The IA-32 Intel Architecture Software
> Developer's Manual says:
[...]
> however, note that the documentation provided by this form can be
> misleading.

That's silly.  Yes, allow the explicit operands for documentation,
but no do not allow invalid operands.


r~

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