Re: Is this a gas bug?

[Jim Wilson]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 04:44, Gan, George wrote:
> I have an assembly file, named, foo.S. It contains only two lines:
> mov rr[r3]=r7
> ld8 r39 = [r35]
> I assembled it with the command: as -xauto foo.S -o foo.o.
> As I dump the object file, I got:
> 10          [MFB]     ld8 r0=[r0]

Yes, this is a gas bug.  The -xauto support has apparently not been
tested well enough.

HJ Lu has written a patch to fix this, which should be added to the
current binutils sources soon.  The thread discussing it is here
    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-05/msg00388.html
The final patch is here:
    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-05/msg00587.html
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com