Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:15:39 -0500
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: cburke AT mitre DOT org (Carl D. Burke)
Subject: Re: Apparent assembler problems...

>>les, lesb, lesw, and lesl aren't recognized as instructions at all.  This is
>>probably fine in protected mode, since what I really wanted to do was set up
>>the VGA interrupt to bang 256 palette entries at once and _simulate_int was
>>the way to go; but it is missing.
>
>The instructions MOVSD and STOSD don't seem to be recognized either.

I think I got REP STOSD to work; I know REP STOSW is OK, as long as you treat
it as two separate instructions on consecutive lines.

>I'm eager to hear a solution to this.  The only thing I can think of is to
>just poke the op codes into memory.

That's probably a viable workaround, although self-modifying code isn't really
recommended.  The ideal approach is probably to fix the assembler tables, but
I don't want to be the one to take that on.
Of course, if it gives me too much heartburn... :-)