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Re: Feature request concerning opcodes in the function prolog
>> But since you have to have a new gas anyway, wouldn't it be simpler to
>> have
>> a new option for gas to instruct it to choose the opcodes that are
>> expected
>> by the win32 applications?
> This was my first idea, but Alexandre Julliard(the Wine maintainer) disliked
> it and prefered a function attribute to turn it on per-function. However,
> from looking at the gcc code it seems that this is the best option to
> generate Win32-friendly code everywhere. I'll look at your other suggestions
> and talk to Alexandre again.
Indeed the option would just have to flip the movl/movl.s default...
Paolo