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

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

--- Comment #10 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Jan Beulich from comment #9)
> 
> > It is more important for gas to be consistent with itself.
> 
> That's a bogus goal imo: Different assembly syntax can naturally result in

Not to me.

> apparent inconsistencies.
> 
> > 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?

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