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problems with newer binutils building linux-2.0.37
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- Subject: problems with newer binutils building linux-2.0.37
- From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner at rochester dot rr dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:38:26 -0400
: leisner@soyata;as --version
GNU assembler 990904
: leisner@soyata;make bzImage
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include -Wall
-Wstri
ct-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486
-malign-
loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o init/main.o
init/ma
in.c
In file included from init/main.c:46:
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/bugs.h: In function
`check_
k6_bug':
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:118: Invalid
`asm'
statement:
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:118: fixed or
forb
idden register 4 (si) was spilled for class SIREG.
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/bugs.h: In function
`check_
cyrix_various':
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:39: Invalid
`asm'
statement:
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:39: fixed or
forbi
dden register 4 (si) was spilled for class SIREG.
init/main.c: In function `get_options':
init/main.c:269: warning: subscript has type `char'
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:159: Invalid
`asm'
statement:
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:159: fixed or
forb
idden register 4 (si) was spilled for class SIREG.
init/main.c: In function `checksetup':
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:140: Invalid
`asm'
statement:
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:140: fixed or
forb
idden register 2 (cx) was spilled for class CREG.
/usr/local/src/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.37/include/asm/string.h:140: Invalid
`asm'
...
string.h has:
102 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP
103 extern inline int strcmp(const char * cs,const char * ct)
104 {
105 register int __res;
106 __asm__ __volatile__(
107 "cld\n"
108 "1:\tlodsb\n\t"
109 "scasb\n\t"
110 "jne 2f\n\t"
111 "testb %%al,%%al\n\t"
112 "jne 1b\n\t"
113 "xorl %%eax,%%eax\n\t"
114 "jmp 3f\n"
115 "2:\tsbbl %%eax,%%eax\n\t"
116 "orb $1,%%eax\n"
117 "3:"
118 :"=a" (__res):"S" (cs),"D" (ct):"si","di");
119 return __res;
120 }
121
122 #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCMP
I don't have a problem if I'm using as 2.9.1 (in /usr/bin on redhat 6.0).
(I have a machine I'm running 2.0.* on successfully and I don't want to
upgrade)
If this is a problem, it should be documented somewhere...
Marty Leisner
leisner@rochester.rr.com