Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 00:47:44 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 boot0.m4 boot0.s Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005070030240.8446-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp4s8dcajq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 5 May 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 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? This seems to be fixed in current (unreleased) versions of binutils. binutils_2.9.1.0.19a handles the 16-bit boot code in Linux-3.x properly. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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