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RE: [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements in memoryoperands


----Original Message----
>From: Jan Beulich
>Sent: 06 May 2005 13:04

> When explicitly specified, gas encoded a pointless zero displacement in
> memory addressing forms. Since this is not normally desired and was most
> likely just an oversight, this patch adds an adjustment to eliminate the
> displacement in that case.

  I'm not sure if I've fully understood the intent of this patch, but I
think you're saying that if someone writes

        mov %eax,0(%edi)

the assembler will emit

   4 0003 8907          mov %eax,(%edi)

and not

   2 0000 894700        mov %eax,0(%edi)

yes?  Nothing the user _explicitly_ specifies should ever be discarded IMO.
What if someone wants to write self-modifying code that stores varying
offsets into that field?


    cheers,
      DaveK
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