Re: [PATCH] configury : Fix LEB128 support for non-GNU assemblers.

[Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

Hi Iain,

> I’ve had this patch in my Darwin trees for (literally) years, it is
> relevant to
> the GCC ports that use a non-binutils assembler.
>
> At present, even if such an assembler supports LEB128,  the GCC config
> is setting HAVE_LEB128 = 0.
>
> The ports I know of that can benefit from a change here are:
[...]
> Solaris (bootstrapped and tests running on GCC211, but maybe Rainer would
>             want wider checks).

I've just manually tried the augmented test on Solaris 10-11.4, SPARC
and x86.  While the Solaris/SPARC assembler handles it just fine, the
x86 one chokes in a known way:

Assembler: 
	"/homes/ro/leb128.s", line 2 : Syntax error
	Near line: "	.uleb128 L2 - L1"

> I guess we could exclude specific ports that don’t want to use leb128 with
> a target elif in the configuration.

I'll include the patch in tonight's Solaris bootstraps for good measure,
but it seems fine to me as is.

Thanks.
        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University