Re: MIPS Assembly.

[Chris Jones <cjones at sutus dot com>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:46:30PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> Chris Jones wrote:
> [snip]
> > A JUMP instruction:
> > 
> >    j    2b
> > 
> > This is what the compiler/assembler is complaining about:
> > 
> > /tmp/ccGn3TTn.s: Assembler messages:
> > /tmp/ccGn3TTn.s:7766: Error: Cannot branch to symbol in another section.
> > /tmp/ccGn3TTn.s:7817: Error: Cannot branch to symbol in another section.
> 
> A jump to a (unnamed) local symbol is implemented as a branch.
> 
> > This compiles fine on x86, but does NOT on mips32 or cross-compiled for
> > mips32.
> 
> I doubt mips inline assembly compiles fine on x86. ;-)

I stand corrected. I am certain that inline assembly would NOT compile on
x86. ;)  

However,  the asm-link changes when building on x86 to use x86 assembly. :)

Worth noting however is that it appears that these routines were
rewritten by Linus adn put in /arch/i386/lib sometime in 1998. I guess
the mips people are a few years behind the times?

> This most likely needs a fix in the mips kernel, which is hosted at
> www.linux-mips.org.

Yup. I will make a post here. Thanks for your help Thiemo.

Cheers,

   -=cj

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