From:	"Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Assembler smal question
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 1010507091338 DOT 19812F AT is...
>
> On Sun, 6 May 2001, Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
>
> > with AT&T you need to have those b/w/l everytime, even when obvious "mov
ax,
> > 1" is considered, it would be "movw $1, %ax".
>
> I don't think this is true anymore, at least not everywhere.  Did you
> try Gas from Binutils 2.11?

I downloaded fresh DJGPP just a few days ago. Haven't taken a close look
yet.

> > > You can tell the compiler exactly what register it clobbers
> > > e. g.. m not good at bcc
> >
> > Yes, this is nice and may be useful for the optimizer, though if you
know
> > what bcc expects to be preserved, you will do fine too.
>
> I don't think you can know that, since it is not documented anywhere
> (AFAIK).

Well, we can determine that in the disassembler. ...or ask a question in a
related newsgroup if that thing is *really* nowhere documented in files that
come with BCC.

Good Luck
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Alexei A. Frounze
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