[Gcc3-devel] gas foo = bar feature

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu May 4 15:18:55 UTC 2006


On Thursday 04 May 2006 10:45, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 May 2006 06:08, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 03 May 2006 19:49, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> >>>> I noticed that upstream uClibc uses the foo = bar assembler feature
> >>>> which we removed recently.
> >>>
> >>> are you referring to current uClibc svn ?  the latest version should be
> >>> using '.set' syntax for bfin ...
> >>
> >> Yes... and it doesn't, not on my machine anyway.
> >> libc/sysdeps/linux/bfin/vfork.S: Assembler messages:
> >> libc/sysdeps/linux/bfin/vfork.S:20: Error: syntax error. Input text was
> >> _vfork.
> >
> > it isnt failing on my nightly tests because i'm using the 2005.4_rc1
> > toolchain ... when i generate a vfork.s file though, i can see the
> > incorrect syntax is being used
>
> This patch should fix it.

looks like a deficiency in the glibc code as well

ive merged it into uClibc svn and i'll start a new thread on the glibc lists, 
cheers
-mike



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