Re: commit (head): AbiWord UT_ASSERT breakage in spell_manager on i386 with gcc

From: Mark Gilbert <mg_abimail_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Dec 31 2004 - 18:25:51 CET

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 10:07 +0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Thanks Mark. There are in fact two separate int 3 instructions; one
> which is represented by a single byte opcode (0xCC) and then a two byte
> version (0xCD03); it is the former we want, which I am pretty sure is in
> GAS, as you found out, 'int3'. I suspect the reason we have not caught
> this so far is that both of these generate a breakpoint, but the former
> has a number of special properties.
>
> (Interestingly engough, the Intel docs note that both the Intel and MS
> compilers will not generate the longer instruction irrespective of the
> mnemonic.)
>
> I have changed that now.
>

Thanks.

> Happy new year to you, when it comes,

Same to you, though I imagine you're already celebrating (-:

-MG
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