Re: [Nasm-devel] [nasm:master] nosplit: Limit the effect of NOSPLIT

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

On 12/31/2013 03:09 PM, anonymous coward wrote:
> On 12/19/13, anonymous coward <nas...@us...> wrote:
>>> [nosplit eax+eax] was encoded [eax*2] previously but
>>> this seems against the user's intention.
>>
>> Actually, it is intentional/expected behavior.
>>
>>> So in this case, nosplit is ignored now and [eax+eax] will be generated.
>>
>> See my other reply to Peter for more detail.
> 
> This change made it into 2.11, and as a result it
> is now breaking existing code for me. Please do
> back it out, or add an option to control this, with
> a default to the original behavior.
> 
> An explicit NOSPLIT isn't something that NASM
> can just ignore.
> 

[nosplit eax+eax] generating [nosplit eax*2] seems like nothing so much
as a bug.  Seriously.  What on Earth would lead you to rely on such
insane behavior?

	-hpa