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

[Alan Modra]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 02:51:32PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> That's silly.  Yes, allow the explicit operands for documentation,
> but no do not allow invalid operands.

Of course it's silly, particularly in AT&T mode.  But intel mode
assemblers allow a memory operand like "BYTE PTR buffer", and I've
seen assembly that used exactly that.

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre