From: Robert Lipe <robertl@dgii.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: hjl@lucon.org, schmid@ltoi.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de,
gas2@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: binutils 2.9 is broken on x86
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 14:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980408160936.24054@dgii.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199804082036.QAA02362@subrogation.cygnus.com>
> $ ./xgcc -mcoff -B./ -O3 /tmp/980329-1.c
> /usr/tmp/cca000Yh.s: Assembler messages:
> /usr/tmp/cca000Yh.s:75: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
>
> The GAS I use is the one from the binutils 2.9 candidates area. I think
>
> Whoops, you're right. I was confused. gas does catch this particular
> error, and has done so since day one. I was mistakenly thinking that
> something else was going on here.
egcs emits something bad, but gas and sco as both correctly vomit on it.
H.J. has submitted a patch to fix the egcs problem.
So in all this hysteria, there is nothing broken that we didn't already
know about and we can all feel good about each piece of software
involved, right?
Case closed, or is there another problem here?
RJL
prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-08 14:09 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <Pine.A32.3.95.980408111418.23610A-100000@ltoi.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
1998-04-08 11:01 ` H.J. Lu
1998-04-08 11:05 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1998-04-08 11:15 ` H.J. Lu
1998-04-08 12:19 ` H.J. Lu
1998-04-08 13:23 ` Robert Lipe
1998-04-08 13:30 ` H.J. Lu
1998-04-08 13:42 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1998-04-08 14:09 ` Robert Lipe [this message]
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