x86 mov to/from segment registers

Josh Vanderhoof josh.vanderhoof@verizon.net
Tue Nov 22 00:45:00 GMT 2005
It has just been brought to my attention that something I wrote
(sf.net/projects/lrmi) is not compiling on Fedora Core development
(gcc 4.0.2, binutils 2.16.91.0.3).  The problem is with inline asms
like this:

        asm volatile ("movl %%gs, %0" : "=rm" (old_gs));
        asm volatile ("movl %0, %%gs" :: "rm" (old_gs));

Apparently changing the "movl" to "mov" makes it compile.  What is the
correct way to get a segment register move without a size prefix?



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