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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Error in ST MINIX assembler
Message-ID: <32002@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 11:24:32 GMT
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While hunting a suspected bug in c68, I found that the ST MINIX as is
broken:
sub.l #0xFFFF0001,...
sub.l #0xABCD0001,...
sub.l #0x7FFF0001,...
are all converted to
subq.l #1,...

This seems to be problem with int/long inside the code.
    can anyone who has the as source tell me exactly *when* this error occurs,
    so that I can avoid these situations in the compiler output, e.g. negate
    the constant and exchange add with sub. If you do not have the time, it
    does not matter if you send the sources to me.

I will delay the patch#4 posting until this has become clear to me.

C.v.W.