From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Edelsohn" To: Ken Raeburn Cc: gas2@cygnus.com, configure@cygnus.com Subject: Re: binutils snapshots no longer build gas Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 23:37:00 -0000 Message-id: <9504250637.AA35181@sandcastle.watson.ibm.com> References: <9504250606.AA05683@cujo.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1995/msg00070.html The current state implies that GAS does not build or function at all. I agree that making GAS the default system assembler may cause some problems for users, but not building GAS at all seems to be an incorrect solution at the opposite extreme. At IBM Watson, I have gas from binutils-2.5.2 installed as "gas" not "as". I think the biggest problem with the current distribution is that this debugging problem is hidden in a FIXME comment instead of in the GAS documentation for the AIX XCOFF configuration. I would let the user/installer decide whether s/he wants a partially functional GAS instead of implying that no functionality exists. Also, AIX XAS has a bug not present in GAS which prevents it from assembling certain GCC output for the POWER/2 architecture. XAS incorrectly exits with an error when it see certain POWER/2 and POWER instructions utilized in the same assembler source file believing that it is an invalid combination. David