> the patch just for the sake of discussion. Does anyone have some > insight on this? I am using binutils-2.15, glibc-2.3.4, 2.6.12-rc2 > kernel headers and gcc-4.1.0-20050418. Thanks. >
I'd use 2.16 binutils, especially if using mainline gcc, but that's not as relevant here... > /home/sjhill/mips-nptl/crosstool-0.31-nptl/build/mips-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-4.1.0-20050418-glibc-2.3.4/build-glibc/posix/pread.o > ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c: In function '__libc_pread': > ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c:69: error: memory input 6 is not > directly addressable > ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c:86: error: memory input 6 is not > directly addressable Probably a problem with the INLINE_SYSCALL macro? Can you post a smaller preprocessed testcase? (or at the outside the preprocessed file) -eric