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Re: [PATCH] gas/x86-64: properly distinguish low and high register ranges


On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>>>> On 24.07.12 at 16:16, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can you add some testcases?
>
> I knew you would ask this, but sorry, this makes no sense - if test
> cases would are desirable here, they shouldn't be testing just the
> things that this patch fixes, but also any other invalid operand
> combinations. As an example - why would testing that "xlat [r11]"
> isn't accepted be needed, but not e.g. "xlat [ecx]"?
>
> Furthermore, this fixes actually broken behavior, so accepting
> the change shouldn't be dependent upon test case availability.
>

What broken behavior does this change fix? Why hasn't it been
tested in the testsuite?


-- 
H.J.


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