The AT&T syntax is an awkward foreign dialect, designed originally for PDP-11 and spoken by bumpkins that knew little about x86 or ARM. No official Intel or AMD documentation ever adopts it. The syntax is terrible. Consider:
movl $1, %eax ; k; moves $1 into EAX ; but in high-level languages we expect '%eax = $1', ; so it goes awkwardly backwards. If this looks fine to you, please re-consider: cmpl $1, %eax jg .L1 ; does this mean 'jump if $1 is greater than %eax' ; or something stupidly reversed? If CMP still looks fine to you, please consider how to write VFMADD231PD in AT&T syntax, really. I have been tired of such inconsistency. For God's sake, please deprecate it. -- Best regards, LIU Hao
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