for most others. This patch disables all lwa insns in 32-bit mode.
We can later re-enable it if the assembler used handles it properly,
Well, you can now do that. Mainline gas and ld are now fixed.
Yes, you are much too quick for me to keep up. Thank you!
Now that gas and ld are fixed, can we use a configure time check to
see whether we're using a fixed gas/ld or not before we disable them?
When I wrote this patch, I thought the Darwin assembler had the same
problem. No idea how I got that in my mind; it doesn't. And AIX does
not support -m32 -mpowerpc64 at all (the compiler disallows it), so
that is out of the picture as well.
I now bootstrapped and tested with the new binutils. Most of the
testcases that were fixed with my patch are fixed there as well; and
some (20040709-2.c, etc.) fail with a linker error now, instead of
the runtime error. Some fail that passed without either patch, but
failing is correct -- wrong code sometimes runs fine :-)
So I'm not applying this patch. I don't think we need a configure
check: we have had many releases with these bugs already, one more
won't hurt. People generally use a recent version of binutils as well.
Segher
