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Re: [PATCH] x86: suppress emission of zero displacements in memoryoperands
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 02:56:52PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> 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?
I agree, unfortunately the i386 assembler doesn't have the length
specifiers that the m68k assembler does. So if you really wanted
to write self-modifying code, you'd have to write 0x12345678 or
some other constant that forces the size encoding you need.
r~