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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:00:18 -0700
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Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [PATCH] x86/asm: avoid mnemonics without type suffix
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On 07/15/2013 11:56 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> (NASM used to be *much* more pleasant to work with than gas. Maybe you
> should strive to make nasm DTRT wrt bt and constants, and maintain
> that lead?)
> 

Yes, that is in fact why I took over NASM development when Simon Tatham
gave up on it.  I'll look at adding this in the next version, it should
be easy enough.

	-hpa


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