On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:06:01PM +0000, Hamilton, Ian wrote: > cmpl $(100/4), %eax > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] temp]$ i386-elf-as -a test.S > test.S: Assembler messages: > test.S:2: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1.
For compatibility with other assemblers, '/' starts a comment on the i386-elf target. So you can't use division. If you configure for i386-linux (or any of the bsds, or netware), you won't have this problem. -- Alan Modra IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
