From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@nynexst.com (H.J. Lu)
To: linux-gcc@vger.rutgers.edu (linuxgcc)
Cc: torvalds@kruuna.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds), raeburn@cygnus.com (Ken Raeburn), ian@cygnus.com (Ian Lance Taylor), gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: The new x86 gas in binutils.
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 22:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <9502280612.AA18703@titanic.nynexst.com>
X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00040.html

Hi,

I have been trying to compile the new binutils snapshot under Linux
for a while now. I am usung gas-950222. I have found the following
things:

1. Some 16 bit supports were added to the binutils. Some assembly
   codes in the Linux C library had to be modified to assembler.
   One example is I had to change "popfl" to just "popf". There
   may be more in the Linux kernel code. I am not sure if that is
   a feature or a bug :-(.
2. The new binutils are very unstable for ELF with PIC. I couldn't
   use gas/ld in gas-950222 to make a shared Linux C library in
   ELF. I had to go back to my private version, 2.5.2.7.

I am afraid the current new binutils are not usable for Linux and
once when they get fixed some asm code in the Linux kernel may
have to be modified.



-- 
H.J. Lu
NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc.			hjl@nynexst.com