>
> On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Chris Noe wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > [...]
> > > GAS is not lying. The code I fixed for the second time was broken.
> > > There is no way that a "movl something, %ax" should ever even assemble.
> > > | |____ short register
> > > |__________________ long operand.
> > >
> > > And if you were told that warnings of this kind are preferable, preferable
> > > to whom?
> > [...]
> >
> > Segregs are an exception to the "movl xx, %ax" rule, for the reasons
> > explained below by Alan Modra:
>
> > [snip about compatibility with old binutils]
>
> Hi Chris,
> Your new bootsect code requires fairly recent binutils anyway. These
> assembly warnings might as well be fixed in 2.3. Otherwise people will
> keep posting fixes and queries, or even worse, bugging binutils
> maintainers about these warnings :-)
Why not simply add something to the Makefile that stops compilation if a
non-recent version of binutils is used?
/David
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