Re: GNU binutils bug ? (assembler trouble)
David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 07:25:30 -0700
There have many *many* fixes to GNU as since Linux/Alpha started. The
handling of 32 bit constants was something that got fixed very early
on (by Bob Manson). If you want to use gas, use the one that comes
with Linux. There are still plenty of bugs left, but those mostly
involves error handling (e.g., it crashes instead of flagging an
undeclared global). But as long as you feed it gcc output, it does
quite well. Fortunately, somebody is working on rewriting Alpha gas
from scratch, which is the clean thing to do.
--david