Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:16:32 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.31 & latest binutils: asm-problems still there |
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On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:29:31AM +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: > > good morning, > > I've just tried to compile 2.4.31 and it still doesn't compile > cleanly with the latest binutils release. > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/data/root/linux-2.4.31/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=process -c -o process.o process.c > {standard input}: Assembler messages: > {standard input}:750: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:751: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:845: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:846: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:897: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:898: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:900: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > {standard input}:912: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov' > > alessandro suardi told me that this problem is solved using the > patch from: > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch > > which are dated from march (2005-03-27) and therefore, about 3 months > old. > > it's about time this gets into the official kernel. who is in charge > of it? (it's obviously not sufficient to report to lkml).
Looks OK except that one "movl" conversion was forgotten in the x86-64 diff:
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ struct task_struct *__switch_to(struct t } { unsigned gsindex; - asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=g" (gsindex)); + asm volatile("movl %%gs,%0" : "=r" (gsindex)); if (unlikely((gsindex | next->gsindex) || prev->gs)) {
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