Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:20:15 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:49:03 +0000
> 
> There seems to be a compatibility problem with the latest version of
> binutils.

The problem is in Allegro: it uses code that is either invalid or
marginally valid and unsafe.  Someone should correct Allegro.

> Perhaps someone else can offer some better suggestions?  Here is the
> output from an Allegro build with binutils 2.10, lots of similar
> errors snipped:
> 
> Compiling Allegro. Please wait...
> [snip]
> writing structure offsets into obj/djgpp/asmdef.inc...
> gcc -x assembler-with-cpp -I. -Isrc -Iobj/djgpp -Wall -Wno-unused -o
> obj/djgpp/blit8.o -c src/blit8.s
> d:/djgpp/tmp\cc960fxG.s: Assembler messages:
> d:/djgpp/tmp\cc960fxG.s:280: Warning: indirect call without `*'
> d:/djgpp/tmp\cc960fxG.s:347: Warning: indirect call without `*'

These warnings are harmless: Gas generates correct code nonetheless.
There's no need to downgrade to previous versions of Binutils.