Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix asm syntax

John Levon
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:15:44 -0000

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:07:23PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:

> >>> Our version of ''as'' doesn''t accept
the ''rex64/'' syntax.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@sun.com>
> >>
> >> But won''t gcc be using gas?
> >
> > Apparently our version of gas is too old to understand it.
>
> That''s not a Solaris-specific problem then. The
''rex64/'' syntax was fixed at
> least a year ago in binutils -- is Solaris that far behind?

At the time, there hadn''t been a binutils release for quite a while,
and
we generally only track actual releases for things like this. I see
there are more recent ones now. We should probably update (especially as
it has the --divide flag).

However, I don''t think there''s a disadvantage to the more
compatible
syntax, is there?

regards,
john