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When trying to write an instruction set analysis tool for disassembled code (https://superuser.com/a/832440/384221) I have found opcode MOVABS which was not included in my opcode source database (Shirk's gas.vim file) and I am not sure in which architecture it has been introduced.
According to What is the meaning of movabs in gas/x86 AT&T syntax? and other sources it seems that the instruction has been introduced before 64-bit architectures. But was it with i686 or earlier?
Thank you.
movabs is just a GAS-specific way to enforce encoding a 64-bit memory offset or immediate. It's still the same standard MOV opcode.
I'm not sure where you got the notion that it was introduced before x64, it's obviously not correct. For example, the Solaris x86 manual mentions: "movabs valid only under –m64".
As Igor mentioned, it's GAS specific.
git log --reverse -Smovabs
tells us that it was introduced in 2000 commit c0d8940 and:
git tag --contains c0d8940
says that it was present as early as binutils-2_11.
