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From: evans@ditsyda.oz (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Urgent bug fix for protected mode
Message-ID: <2090@ditsyda.oz>
Date: 1 Aug 89 19:10:31 GMT
References: <2067@ditsyda.oz> <Jul.30.17.53.09.1989.21520@athos.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: evans@ditsyda.mq.oz (Bruce Evans)
Organization: CSIRO DIT Sydney, Australia
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In article <Jul.30.17.53.09.1989.21520@athos.rutgers.edu> rbthomas@athos.rutgers.edu (Rick Thomas) writes:
>I tried installing this bug fix and got the message 
>	
>	klib286.s 804: register error
>
>when I ran make.

Oops.

	mov	al,4+2(bp)

should be

	movb	al,4+2(bp)

Asld needs to have the size-specifier 'b' on instructions dealing with byte
quantities, even when the size is determined by a byte register as here :-(.
I do not normally use asld...
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Bruce Evans		evans@ditsyda.oz.au