On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> It is also not clear to me that the new assembler really fixes the
> bug. While I cannot judge over the correctness of the syntax, I think
> it is possible that the new assembler still works on the same syntax,
> not recognizing the parameterless GOTOFF our gcc generates.
I happen to have a Linux gas built from a relatively recent version of
binutils. It still has the problem. Surprisingly, both assemblers
handle:
leal foo@GOTOFF,%eax
but neither handles the equivalent:
movl $foo@GOTOFF,%eax
> It is possible that we indroduced the bug by our profiling changes?
> The line in i386.c that generates the code in question is from
> revision 1.5, which is the profiling delta from the original gcc. In
> that case we can't count on a new gas fixing it for us.
Reverting to the FSF version of i386.c didn't fix the problem.
Bruce
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