Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 1997 16:43:14 -0400 | From | George H Byrkit <> | Subject | pre-2.1.37-x trampoline.S problem |
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I, too have a problem when compiling (assembling) the results of trampoline.S preprocessing.
The failing line in trampoline.S contains: .long gdt-0xC0000000
The problem (seems to be) that 'gdt' has the value zero, so the result of the subtraction is 0xFFFFFFFF40000000.
So why does 'gdt' have the value zero? That's the question/problem. I'm using binutils 2.8.0.3, ld.so 1.8.10 and (I think) the proper gcc/libs.
Regards, George Byrkit _______________________ ERROR TEXT AND CONFIG __________________ error with pre-patch-2.1.37-7.gz:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.1.37/include -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__SMP__ -traditional -c trampoline.S -o trampoline.o /tmp/cca02290.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cca02290.s:118: Error: Value of ffffffff40000000 too large for field of 4 bytes at 000000000000003d make[1]: *** [trampoline.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.1.37/arch/i386/kernel' make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
config file: CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_M586=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT_AUTOPROBE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY=y CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_EISA=y CONFIG_DEC_ELCP=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_FAT_FS=y CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_SMB_FS=y CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_SERIAL=y CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_MOUSE=y CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y CONFIG_RTC=y CONFIG_SOUND=m CONFIG_SB=y SBC_BASE=220 SBC_IRQ=7 SBC_DMA=1 SB_DMA2=5 SB_MPU_BASE=330 SB_MPU_IRQ=-1
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