Re: [patch] 2.3.31 i386/bootsect.S

Alan Modra (alan@SPRI.Levels.UniSA.Edu.Au)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:18:14 +0930 (CST)


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Thomas Molina wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> > Following this you sent final-diff. Applying final.diff gave me a bunch
> > of new errors.
> > bootsect.s:803 Error: `%fs:(%ebx)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index
> > expression.
> > similar errors at 811,812,813,1069
> > gcc-2.95, binutils-2.9.5.0.12
> > Garst
>
> Using binutils from RedHat 6.0 (2.9.1.0.23) all I had to do was replace
> the one outw to outb in line 404, as suggested by Linus.

binutils-2.9.5.0.12 is correct in it's complaint about final-diff. Chris
got a bit hyper-active when he changed correct code to something that
maybe suits buggy old binutils ;-)

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