Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can somebody familiar with inline assembly guess whether the source > or the compiler are wrong here? > > --- snip --- > inline unsigned int > cia_bwx_ioread8(void *a) > { > return ({ unsigned char __kir; __asm__("ldbu %0,%1" : "=r"(__kir) : > "m"(*(volatile unsigned char *)a)); __kir; }); > } > --- snip --- > > $ alpha-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-common -ffreestanding -O2 \ > -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -msmall-data -mcpu=ev5 -Wa,-mev6 -c core_cia.i > > /tmp/ccmvyEzr.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/ccmvyEzr.s:16: Error: macro requires $at register while noat in effect
The "ldbu" instruction is only available on ev56 and above, however, gcc4.1 emits ".arch ev5" because of "-mcpu=ev5", which overrides as's "-mev6". This used to work because 4.0 didn't output ".arch ev5" because it doesn't actually do anything important. I don't see any fault on gcc's side here. You could argue that the command line option for as should override the ".arch", but I think it's been like this forever. So you should probably just add ".arch ev6" inside the asm (annoyingly, gas doesn't seem to have ".arch any" or similar). -- Falk