Re: Compiler/Assembler warnings <patch>

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:22:04 -0300

"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:
> The following patch is submitted again <sigh>. I wished I have saved
> the previous one which never got into the kernel. Most of the stuff
> is asm syntax errors where it is not possible to move a longword into
> a short register so GAS fixes the code and issues a warning.

Are you sure there aren't any old binutils that misassemble this stuff out
there anymore? I (among _many_ others) also fixed this, and was told that a
warning with new binutils is preferable to silence and crashes with older
ones.

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