On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 3:58 PM, Bill Schmidt <wschm...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > Hi, > > My recent patches to trunk and gcc-7-branch for avoiding speculation of > indirect branches has a flaw, pointed out by David. Usage of "." to > represent the program counter is not portable across all POWER > assemblers, particularly not being accepted on AIX. "$" is the > universally accepted alternative. So change the code and the test > cases to use $ instead of . for this purpose. > > Regstrap is in progress on powerpc64-linux-gnu and powerpc64le-linux-gnu. > Assuming no issues are found, is this okay for trunk and backport to 7?
Once I got past the "." issue, I have discovered that the AIX assembler also doesn't like crset eq It doesn't like the symbolic name for the operand, it wants a numeric operand for "eq". Thanks, David
