Re: Error compiling 2.4 with CVS gcc on Athlon

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 16:55:03 EST

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Followup to: <20010102123913.A19554@twiddle.net>
By author: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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>
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:12:37PM -0500, Ghadi Shayban wrote:
> > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > {standard input}:139: Error: bad register name `%%mm0'
>
> This is, in fact, a compiler bug. Somehow the "%%" in the
> source didn't print as "%" as expected.
>

Actually, gcc doesn't do % expansion (and hence %% -> %) if there are
no :'s in the asm() statement. I don't know if that's the issue here,
though.

-hpa

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