Re: fs/binfmt_aout.o, Error: suffix or operands invalid for `cmp'[was Re: 2.6.1

[H. Peter Anvin]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > >
> > > It's complaining about this:
> > >
> > > #APP
> > >         addl %ecx,%eax ; sbbl %edx,%edx; cmpl %eax,$-1073741824; sbbl $0,%edx   # dump.u_dsize, sum, flag,
> > > #NO_APP
> > The cmpl should have its arguments reversed.  It's quite possible some versions of the 
> > assembler accepts the form given, but they're wrong (and doubly confusing when used as 
> > input to sbb.)
>
> This was built with gcc 4.0.4 20060507 (prerelease).
>
> I don't normally build a.out support, but I just tried and it compiled
> fine with gcc 4.1.1.  SO this is probably a compiler bug (almost certainly
> given that it generated illegal assembler code.)

It's not (it's #APP, i.e. inline assembly); rather, it's an illegal 
constraint.

	-hpa
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