Re: 2.3.21

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:18:14 +0200

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Dieter Kraft wrote:
> > bbootsect.s:619: Error: base/index register must be 32 bit register
>
> That's actually a gas bug, introduced when the gas people tightened up
> their requirements, and they seem to have tightened them a bit too much.
> The 16-bit register is actually the correct one in 16-bit mode, and a
> 32-bit register is very much not correct.
>
> Who maintains gas these days? We'll make the kernel use the 32-bit
> register to work around the gas bug for now, but it definitely IS a gas
> bug, and it would be good to get it fixed.
>

Not at all! Definitevely at least in the following
binutils version this bug isn't present.
Please have a look at the patch I have just send out.

rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.9.5.0.14-1

--Marcin

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