Re: [Nasm-devel] [nasm:master] AVX-512: Add {evex} instruction prefix

[anonymous c. <nas...@us...>]

>> > For instructions that can be encoded either in VEX or EVEX,
>> > {evex} forces nasm to encode in EVEX.
>>
>> In addition to a per-instruction selection mechanism
>> you also want a global selection mechanism, i.e. an
>> assembler directive and a command line option. And
>> as a result of that, you then want {vex} as well.
>
> Yes, adding {vex} - actually {vex2} and {vex3} - is on my to-do list. I will
> implement that as soon as possible. A global selection mechanism is now
> added to my to-do list.

I just spotted the change for {vex2} and {vex3}.

(I'm going through mail in chronological order.)

But yeah, having both, an assembler directive
and a command line option would be useful to
cope with large chunks of code.  :)