[PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements inmemoryoperands

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: DJ Delorie
>Sent: 06 May 2005 17:41

>> What if someone wants to write self-modifying code that stores
>> varying offsets into that field?
> 
> Being one of those people, the answer is "use .byte".
> 
> We don't trust assemblers (or linkers) to be dumb any more.


  Oh well, it seems a shame from the
future-proofing-clean-design-and-maintainability point of view to have to
hard code opcode values as hex constants in your program when you have a
handy assembler right there that could do the work for you.....


    cheers,
      DaveK
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