Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:34:32 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Assembly
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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996 Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk wrote:

> > > > The code is "shrd edx, eax, 16".  I don't know that much
> > 
> > I believe he's trying the upper 16 bits of one register into the lower
> > 16 bits (having the rest of the bits shifting along with it)
> > of the second register..   I think this is a 386 instruction...
> 
> Yes, it is. I'm not convinced that gas supports all 386/486 instructions.
> Am I right on this score? (the info pages don't provide a listing of those
> it copes with AFAIK)

If you *really* want to know, you can try looking at the strings inside 
gas.exe (with `strings.exe' which comes with bnu252b.zip and should be in 
your bin subdirectory).