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Re: [PATCH] Important gas fixes on sparc
- To: Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important gas fixes on sparc
- From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 10:54:55 -0700
- Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
- References: <19990607193515.J949@mff.cuni.cz>
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 07:35:15PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> ... should become R_SPARC_22 relocation. This is the bug H.J.Lu was solving
> in his Linux binutils patch, but using his solution would always show sethis
> immediates without %hi in objdump, gdb & co., which is kind of inconvenient
> when 99.9% of all sethis are sethi %hi(x), r.
You may want to hack this in your local tree to emit a warning for
R_SPARC_22. Red Hat 6 was delayed on Sparc because of this change.
So there's some amount of assembly code out there that's got this
wrong.
r~