Re: AS problem

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:53:00PM +0000, PatilSubhash Jayadeep wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Assembler generated strange error for following code,
> 
>       .set tuv, _undef
>       .set tuv, tuv+1
>       .long tuv
> 
> The error is, symbol definition loop encountered at tuv
> But if you change defs of tuv like,
> 
>       .set tuv, 1
>       .set tuv, tuv+_undef
>       .long tuv
> 
> Then it works fine, with tuv as 1. (no relocation is generated, _undef is 
> dropped).

Both of these are bugs.  I've opened a bugreport to track this problem,
and will look at fixing it.

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre