RFC: Disallow ".eqv param, ebp-4" in x86 assembler

Jan Beulich JBeulich@novell.com
Mon Apr 19 15:16:00 GMT 2010


>>> "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> 19.04.10 16:41 >>>
>Is there a way to properly support ".eqv param, ebp-4":

I don't know, but there surely should be.

>http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11509 
>
>I am planning to disallow it.

Why? There's nothing wrong with it. If (as you state in the bugzilla
entry) the expression indeed gets resolved at first use, this clearly
is a bug that ought to be fixed (and as we can see using a simple
register name on the right side doesn't have the same effect).

Jan



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