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by mhh__ 1662 days ago
> latest Intel instruction sets.

I'm impressed with -vasm, but fo the record this isn't strictly true. It supports most everything you'll see day to day but AVX2 (for example) is emphatically not the latest and greatest.

AVX512 adds quite a lot of stuff for example. Entirely new set of mask registers for example.

Even with the VEX prefix Intel did new instructions just recently (VNNI).

As long as it doesn't blow up I think it's fine to not support these, just want to make it clear that if you use (say) TSX via inserting raw bytes in an AsmStatement (which I have done) then the disassembler will not pick it up.