Re: [PATCH][TRIVIAL] Remove bogus "value 0x37ffffff truncated to0x37ffffff" warning.

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 18:53, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Bart Samwel wrote:
> 
> > Now it seems to behave correctly: for '~' it always warns, for '-' it 
> > only warns if the negative value is below -0x80000000. I'll submit a 
> > patch to this effect (including the format extensions) to the binutils 
> > people.
> 
> binutils 2.14 works fine, so I believe they already fixed it.
> 

I would beg to differ:

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nosferatu linux # make
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CHK     include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  AS      arch/i386/boot/setup.o
arch/i386/boot/setup.S: Assembler messages:
arch/i386/boot/setup.S:165: Warning: value 0x37ffffff truncated to 0x37ffffff
  LD      arch/i386/boot/setup
  BUILD   arch/i386/boot/bzImage
Root device is (8, 3)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 4799 bytes.
System is 1366 kB
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
nosferatu linux # ld --version
GNU ld version 2.14.90.0.7 20031029
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
nosferatu linux #
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Martin Schlemmer

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