Re: [PATCH 2/2] m68k: more workarounds for recent binutils idiocy

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 18:07:50 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:30:05PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > cretinous thing doesn't believe that (%a0)+ is one macro argument and
> > splits it in two; worked around by quoting the argument...
>
> NAK, this is a bug in binutils and is fixed there already (at least in
> CVS).

OK... Would be nice to find out which versions are broken (that's
Documentation/Changes fodder), I'll see to it.

What about the first problem? Even current binutils CVS treats
foo.bar as a single identifier, and doesn't recognize it as invocation
of foo with .bar as the first argument. Any objections against the
first patch?
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