Bug(?) in GNU as assembler

[Boris Pisarcik]

Hi !

I wrote a small assembly program containing
really a few lines of source.
The program's function was only to call system call "exit" under linux.
The source file i send as an attachement to this message, but it
is very simple so that i write it also here:

.text
_start:
.global _start
  
    movl $1, %eax
    int  $0x80

.end

I named this source file as "pok.s" and
compiled it with the following commandline options:
> as --gstabs -o pok.o pok.s

and it gave mi following error:
  pok.s: Assembler messages:
  pok.s: Error: local label "0" (instance number 0 of a dollar label) is not 
         defined

I found, that it writes that message only when i use "--gstabs" flags
on it, but only in case, the file name consists exacly of
3 chars+period+1 suffix char, so eg. "pok.s" "abc.d" "xxx.y" etc...

When I rename this to anything else (like "abcd.e"), it functions well 
also with "--gstabs" otion.

My configuration:
Version:      GNU assembler 2.10.90
Platform:     Intel Pentium 1 MMX 166MHZ
OS:           Linux, Kernel (2.2.17, 2.4.0, 2.4.2), Linux Mandrake 7.2 
distribution
GCC version:  2.95.3

I don't have sources of GNU assembler.

Best regards                                          Boris

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