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Re: gas not accepting clang exceptions on powerpc
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Peter Lawrence <peterl95124 at sbcglobal dot net>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:16:20 +0930
- Subject: Re: gas not accepting clang exceptions on powerpc
- References: <928FFCCF-E5FB-481D-BB6F-ED0A13E3A6B8@sbcglobal.net>
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 08:02:27PM -0700, Peter Lawrence wrote:
>
> comparing gcc verses clang-llvm assembler output for PowerPC
> (apple-powerbook, OSX 10.4, using installed gcc/gas,
> gcc -version --> 4.0.1, as -version --> 1.38)
>
>
> gas does not complain about differencing two symbols from different
> sections
> in a ".long" directive, but does complain when first defining that
> difference as
> a symbol name.
>
> Is this really the way gas is supposed to work, or is this version
> of gas too old, or what ---?
This is not the way gas works currently. I don't know the history of
your Apple software but suspect what you have is not the original
1.38. Please ask this of Apple. FSF gas 1.38 is 20 years old.
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM