Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
> > cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -DLIBC_RCS -DSYSLIBC_RCS -I/home/src/lib/libc/inclu
de -D__DBINTERFACE_PRIVATE -DINET6 -DPOSIX_MISTAKE -I/home/src/lib/libc/../
libc/locale -DBROKEN_DES -DYP -I/usr/obj/home/src/i386/usr/include -c /home
/src/lib/libc/../libc/stdtime/localtime.c -o localtime.So
> > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > {standard input}:87: Warning: warning: unrecognized characters `@GOTOFF' in
expression
> > {standard input}:114: Warning: warning: unrecognized characters `@GOTOFF' i
n expression
> >
> > .. which is kinda disturbing..
>
> This seems to be non-cosmetic. gas apparently can't handle constants of
> the form address@GOTOFF. %ebx normally has to be added to these constants
> to get an address, but gcc sometimes "optimises"
> "leal address@GOTOFF(%ebx),%eax" to
> "movl $address@GOTOFF,%eax; addl %ebx,%eax".
The current binutils gas deals with this without a complaint BTW. And
mozilla compiled with the new binutils seems to work fine too while when
I compiled the same source with the old as/ld it was crashing at startup.
Cheers,
-Peter
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