Re: PATCH: PR gas/10740: Intel syntax far jumps broken

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> H.J.,
>
> where have you seen any Intel (or MASM) document saying that this is
> valid Intel syntax? Neither the two-operand form nor the lcall/ljmp
> mnemonics are.
>
> You're just adding hacks for things that have never been valid anyway -
> if someone uses .intel_syntax, (s)he should also be writing Intel syntax
> code... I intentionally left out support (and tests) for this when I
> re-wrote the new parser.
>
> I'd therefore like to ask you to revert that change, unless there has
> been a non-ancient gas version that didn't accept the proper syntax.

Only very recent assembler accepts the "proper" syntax.


H.J.