On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:01:50PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote: > >> With older binutils this is silently accepted as if this was "cmpw", > >> while often "cmpd" is wanted. With newer binutils GAS will complain > >> about this for 64-bit code. For 32-bit code it still silently assumes > >> "cmpw" is what is meant.
> This one made it into 4.9-rc3 as "powerpc: Convert cmp to cmpd in idle > enter sequence". We need it to build the 4.4 kernel with GCC 6.2, so > my OpenPower firmware builds are failing. The GCC version does not matter; the binutils version does, however. Segher
