From:	pavenis AT lanet DOT lv
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:53:44 +0200
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Subject:	Re: Warning patch for exceptn.S
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On 14 Jun 2000, at 13:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Mark E. wrote:
> 
> > gas from Binutils 2.10 pre3 warns about a missing '*' for the two
> > ljmp instructions in exceptn.S. Here's a patch to hush it up:
> 
> If older versions of Gas generate the same code after the patch,
> this patch is okay with me.

It's worse. AS from binutils-2.9.1 refuses to accept exceptn.S after 
patch. The same is with
	.byte 0x2E
	ljmp *foo

So we have an example where binutils-2.[89].* and 2.10 prereleases
are incompatible. Only (only partial) cure I see is not to use  -Werror
when compiling .S files

Andris

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