[Bug gas/291] New: GAS assemble direct constant as memory reference

[egarrulo at muchomail dot com]

Hello,

   in the following code snippet, GAS assemble what should
be a direct constant as it were a memory reference.

binutils 2.15.90
GAS version 2.15.90
Platform Windows XP.

Comments show the interesting line. Comments follow.

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.intel_syntax noprefix

.data
        Format: .asciz "FormatLen = %d - %d\n"
        FormatLen= . - Format # FormatLen=0x15

.text

.global _main

_main:
        push ebp
        mov ebp, esp

        # Following instruction assembles as
        # it were written:       
        # push dword ptr [0x15]
        push FormatLen
        # whereas it should be just like:       
        push 0x15
        push offset Format
        call _printf
        add esp, 12
        
        xor eax, eax
        
        mov esp, ebp    
        pop ebp
        ret

.end
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Maybe that doesn't show up in AT&T syntax because
constants are $-prefixed.

As far as I know, Intel syntax is:

- Load a constant (note no brackets):

    mov eax, 0x12

   which should also be for symbolic constants

- Load the value at the specified address (note brackets):

    mov eax, dword ptr [myLabel]

- Load address (note the OFFSET keyword):

    mov eax, offset myLabel

Thank you for your attention. And thank you all for your work
aimed to allowing Windows users easy access to GNU tools.

-- 
           Summary: GAS assemble direct constant as memory reference
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.15
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gas
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: egarrulo at muchomail dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291

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