> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:
> > The following patch is submitted again <sigh>. I wished I have saved
> > the previous one which never got into the kernel. Most of the stuff
> > is asm syntax errors where it is not possible to move a longword into
> > a short register so GAS fixes the code and issues a warning.
>
> Are you sure there aren't any old binutils that misassemble this stuff out
> there anymore? I (among _many_ others) also fixed this, and was told that a
> warning with new binutils is preferable to silence and crashes with older
> ones.
GAS is one of the latest. There is a version (later, I think) that is
broken.
GNU assembler 2.9.5
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i686-pc-linux-gnu'.
GAS is not lying. The code I fixed for the second time was broken.
There is no way that a "movl something, %ax" should ever even assemble.
| |____ short register
|__________________ long operand.
And if you were told that warnings of this kind are preferable, preferable
to whom?
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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