From owner-cvs-all Fri May 5 22:10: 1 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CAC37B8FF; Fri, 5 May 2000 22:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA19254; Sat, 6 May 2000 01:09:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200005060509.BAA19254@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 01:09:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 boot0.m4 boot0.s Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-May-00 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Baldwin writes: >> [...] Unfortunately, due to as(1) brokenness, we still use m4 >> macros for all 16-bit addresses, and all short jumps (i.e., 8-bit >> relative addresses in the jump instruction) must be wrapped in .code32 >> directives to avoid useless bloat by as(1). > > Any hope of seeing gas fixed to handle this properly? Or is that a > feature? Well, I tried to look at the gas source today to see why it was doing this but my eyes kept crossing. :P I'll try again when my finals are over and if that doesn't work I'll just hassle the binutils people until they fix it. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message