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Date:      Sat, 27 May 2000 02:28:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 mpboot.s
Message-ID:  <20000527062857.ULTM22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <200005270625.XAA96351@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On 27-May-00 John Baldwin wrote:
> jhb         2000/05/26 23:25:36 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/i386/i386        mpboot.s 
>   Log:
>   - Remove unnecessary 'data32' and 'addr32' prefixes and #define's.

Now that we have a decent x86 assembler, the operand size and
addressing mode prefixes should almost never be used.  The 'w' and 'l'
suffixes can be used to force almost any instruction into either 16-bit
or 32-bit operands, respectively.

-- 

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