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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
To:     Alexis BRENON <abrenon@wyplay.com>
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Alexis BRENON wrote:

> > > To debug, I write a small program in the MARS MIPS simulator with this
> > > instruction. But when compiling, assembler says me that -8 is an operand
> > > of
> > > incorrect type.
> >   The instruction you quoted assembles for me successfully, what version of
> > binutils do you use and what exact error message do you get?
> 
> I didn't try to assemble it, but only to run it in the MARS simulator. If I
> assemble it with GNU AS, it assembles successfully.

 So what assembler have you been referring to above?

  Maciej