[Bug binutils/20838] Strange disassembly for 4d in x86-64 mode

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20838

Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
Hi James,

> The disam seems to skip the first byte if presented with another op
> afterwards.  Please let me know if this is a bug or intended behavior.

I think that this is expected behaviour, but just to be sure, what are you
expecting the disassembler to do ?

Please note that the disassembler assumes that a symbol will always refer to
the first byte of an instruction, not to any bytes inside the instruction. 
Thus if it encounters a symbol whilst halfway through disassembling a previous
instruction it assumes that something strange is happening and it just
disassemble the half instruction as .byte values.

Cheers
  Nick

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