[Bug gas/21874] x86: Multiple segment registers in the address are not detected with -masm=intel

[jbeulich at novell dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21874

--- Comment #11 from Jan Beulich <jbeulich at novell dot com> ---
(In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #10)
> > > In the case of "fs:gs:[eax]", you can replace it with
> > > "fs:[eax]" to get the same output.
> > 
> > In straight line code yes. But what if a first override is hidden deep in a
> > macro you can't or don't want to modify, but you need to add an override to
> > in one special case?
> 
> Do you have a real example?

No, I don't. But I don't assume you have a real example of someone having used
something like fs:foo:[ebx] either, to support your original change. The
reporter's example, as he states, did not result in bad code being generated
(and for that case accepting the code was the intended behavior).

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