Re: pushl computed immediate address on 2.8.1

[hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> Looking at the example I gave more, I implied that this was from 
> "hello world" compiled as PIC.    This was wrong.   I apologize.
> I grafted the failure from a f77 test case into a C hello world 
> and didn't make that clear.   I was focusing on the gas issue on 
> this list and the gcc issues in the egcs list.   In trying to 
> simplify the gas test case, I obscured the actual case where 
> gcc/egcs would emit this.
> 

Now, that makes senses.

> You can see one real example of this failure by running g77 with -fPIC 
> and -O3:
> 
> $ g77 -O3 -fPIC /play/egcs/gcc/testsuite/g77.f-torture/execute/short.f -o /tm>
> /usr/tmp/cca003D7.s:136:syntax error at (
> /usr/tmp/cca003D7.s:151:syntax error at (
> /usr/tmp/cca003D7.s:162:syntax error at (
> /usr/tmp/cca003D7.s:173:syntax error at (
> (robertl) rjlhome:/play/egcs/gcc/testsuite/g77.f-torture/execute
> $ g77 --version
> egcs-2.90.23 980102 (egcs-1.0.1 release)
> 
> The lines it wails about are of the form:
>         pushl $.LC4@GOTOFF(%ebx)
> 
> The assembler in the case above is not  GAS.  It's the OpenServer 5.0.4
> assembler.     GAS should complain about this as well.
> 
> 
> Does EGCS 1.0.1 for GNU/Linux for x86 really emit something different,
> or did you get tripped up in my obscurity in the test case?  If so, I'm
> sorry to have wasted your time.

Yes. Thanks for clearing it up. I have so many emails to go through
after coming back from a vacation :-(.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)