A bug in IA32 assembler

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Jun 28 06:22:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:48:57PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> # gcc -c xmm.s
> xmm.s: Assembler messages:
> xmm.s:11: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movaps'
> 
> Which one is valid,
> 
> 	movaps (A.3),%xmm0
> 
> or
> 	movaps ($A.3),%xmm0

Both, I suppose, although the second one is trickery to get a
'$' into a label.

	movaps A.3,%xmm0

is really what you want;  Your added parentheses just act as they
normally do in arithmetic expressions.

Alan



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