X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: RayeR Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: problem with AS from binutils 2.21.1 Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 16:49:03 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 8 Message-ID: <76df8c48-1463-43d1-98a1-4c32fb5c7643@t16g2000vba.googlegroups.com> References: <8a32880d-526c-40ac-a9bb-e88fce4ee2aa AT z25g2000vbs DOT googlegroups DOT com> <21258842-845d-4b87-9c29-52d0528e2ca0 AT dp8g2000vbb DOT googlegroups DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.45.168.98 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1324860667 29866 127.0.0.1 (26 Dec 2011 00:51:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: t16g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=78.45.168.98; posting-account=Q0wMHAoAAADjYrghh94FTf6YnbpTqZgp User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HUALESNKRC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1581 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com No, mingw AS cannot be used, no way. I tried different AS from binutils packages stepping back to v2.14 but all behaved the same. When experimenting I found that if I compile the problem file with -O2 instead of -O3 it pass! So now it seems that GCC 4.6.2 generates some crippled code that AS cannot assemle?!