From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
To: schmid@ltoi.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de (Peter Schmid)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, ian@cygnus.com (Ian Lance Taylor), gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: binutils 2.9 is broken on x86
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:01:00 -0000
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References: <Pine.A32.3.95.980408111418.23610A-100000@ltoi.iap.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00096.html

> 
> These are the testsuite results for egcs-2.91.22 on the
> i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1 system. I had to add --disable-nls to configure
> to compile egcs. What about making --disable-nls a default option for
> the texinfo configure?
> 
> Peter Schmid
> 
> gcc:
> gcc.sum:FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/980329-1.c,  -O2 
> /tmp/cca17739.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cca17739.s:75: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
> 

binutils 2.9 is broken on x86. It silently turns

incb %di

into

incl   %edi

Although my binutils chokes on it, however it didn't generate
bogus opcode. I will make binutils 2.8.1.0.30 to fix it. In
the meantime, please don't go back to old binutils.

Ian, please don't make 2.9 as is. It turns out my worry comes
true. My x86 patch seems quite useful.

Thanks.

H.J.