Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 19:34:39 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Subject: Re: Question about genassym, locore.s and 0-sizedarrays(showstopper for an icc compiled kernel) Message-ID: <20030905192554.Q9277@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030905180200.D9084@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030904180448.021a1b6b.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030905025922.A68885@newtrinity.zeist.de> <20030905180200.D9084@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, I wrote:
> ...
> If some values are unrepresentable then they need to be represtended
> using other values. E.g., add 1 to avoid 0, or multiply by the alignment
> size if some element of the tool chanin instsists on rounding up things
chain insists
> for alignment like a broken aout version used to do. 16-bit values
> would need 17 bits to represent after adding 1.
Better, add 0x10000 to avoid 0. awk has no support for parsing hex numbers
so subtracting the bias of 1 would take a lot more code, but ignoring
leading hexdigits requires no changes in genassym.sh -- it already ignores
everything except the last 4 hexdigits.
Bruce
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