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Re: [PATCH] x86-64 opcode corrections

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:55:36 +0200
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64 opcode corrections
References: <s0bf530f.024@emea1-mh.id2.novell.com>

"Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:

> A lot of illegal instructions were accepted by the assembler, and in a
> few cases useless rex prefixes would have been generated.
>
> 2004-06-03 Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
>
> 	* include/opcode/i386.h: Adjust instructions descriptions to
> better
> 	match the specification.
> 	* gas/testsuite/gas/cfi/cfi-x86_64.d: Adjust expectation for
> leave to
> 	not have a rex prefix.
> 	* gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-inval.[ls]: Add a bunch of
> instructions
> 	illegal in 64-bit mode.

Those instructions are indeed illegal, I've checked them all.

Your mailer wraps around the lines - that makes it difficult to read
the patch.

Can you resend this patch - and your other one - in a way that it's
properly generated, perhaps as attachment?

Thanks,
Andreas
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  - From: Jan Beulich

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