Ah, be a good boy and go bitch around somewhere else, will you please ?
No, in this case Bruce is right on the money. I don't like the syntax and would rather use standard Motorola syntax, since it's what I'm used to. Not everything said in a negative context is bitching. The fact that it gave me trouble when I was compiling it was just the final straw that convinced me to not use gas.
Actually, GAS has a flag (-M; aka MRI mode) that allows one to use the standard motorola syntax.