Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 09:13:57 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Assembler smal question
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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?

> > 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).