( $xlate="${dir}../../perlasm/x86_64-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate) or
die "can't locate x86_64-xlate.pl";
-open OUT,"| \"$^X\" $xlate $flavour $output";
+open OUT,"| \"$^X\" \"$xlate\" $flavour \"$output\"";
*STDOUT=*OUT;
sub L() { $code.=".byte ".join(',',@_)."\n"; }