Re: [Bug gas/2895] New: Looking for gasp

2006-07-10 Thread James E Wilson
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 13:05, steveo at syslang dot net wrote: > I used to use gasp (the gas macroprocessor) a long time ago and I have someone > who now needs it. By googling around I saw that it was folded into binutils > but > that it's now gone from there. gasp was deprecated in binutils-2.13

Re: [Bug ld/2869] IA64: relocation truncated to fit: TPREL22

2006-07-07 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:47, gary at intrepid dot com wrote: > Can the compiler determine that TPREL22 won't work, or might a new > compilation switch (ala, -fbig-tls) be needed? Try -mtls-size=64. HJ's example compiles fine with that option. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix

Re: not supported target any longer

2006-07-07 Thread James E Wilson
On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 06:30, Hauke Fuhrmann wrote: > I tried to compile the binutils for the Hitachi 8/300 processor (for the > Lego Mindstorms robots). The target for configure used to be > "h8300-hms". h8300-hms is an alias for h8300-coff. The h8300-coff gas support was removed in August last

Re: [Bug ld/2809] New: ld incorrect applies LTOFF22X/LDXMOV relocations

2006-06-23 Thread James E Wilson
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:49, cgray at cse dot unsw dot edu dot au wrote: > ld on ia64 applies LTOFF22X and LDXMOV relocations at linktime, voilating the > ABI. If you read the documentation for LTOFF22X and LDXMOV, it clearly says that they are link time optimizations. So there is no ABI violati

Re: ld 2.16.1: Ordered & unordered sections error on IA64

2005-12-22 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 10:25, John S. Worley wrote: > ld: .data has both ordered and unordered sections > ld: find link failed: Bad value You might try using FSF binutils mainline, to see if perhaps the problem is already fixed. Current binutils mainline will emit a more helpful message, which giv

Re: [Bug gas/1434] IA64 assembler generates different debug info

2005-10-06 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:33, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > -5e01 00020027 R_IA64_DIR64LSB .text + 12 > +5e01 00020027 R_IA64_DIR64LSB .text + 11 Isn't this exactly the same problem as gas/1433? Interpretation of tags in the presence

Re: [Bug gas/1433] IA64 assembler generates bad 2.6.9 Linux kernel.

2005-10-06 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 16:24, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > - 0001004d R_IA64_PCREL32LSB .text + 2 > + 0001004d R_IA64_PCREL32LSB .text + 1 This seems to be an old debate reborn. When we have relocs, tags, debug info, whatever tha

Re: [Bug binutils/947] New: Extension to BFD and addr2line to print inlining chain

2005-05-12 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:10, fnf at specifixinc dot com wrote: > The patch (which I'll attach separately) allows addr2line to print > additional information about how we arrived at that address via several > levels of inlining: This binutils patch requires a gcc patch to emit the DW_AT_call_file a

Re: [Bug gas/803] gas should avoid F-unit NOPs (and B-unit probably, too)

2005-03-28 Thread James E Wilson
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:48, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > This is an updated patch. I documented the change and modified > extra_goodness. OK. Thanks. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com ___ bug-binutils mailing list bug-b

Re: [Bug gas/803] gas should avoid F-unit NOPs (and B-unit probably, too)

2005-03-28 Thread James E Wilson
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:03, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > This patch adds "-mtune=[itanium1|itanium2]". I will update > NEWS and doc if it is OK. I think the extra_goodness change is a little confusing. You are reusing the parameter "slot" for the return value, even though the return value has n

Re: [Bug gas/803] gas should avoid F-unit NOPs (and B-unit probably, too)

2005-03-25 Thread James E Wilson
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 09:18, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > I think we should add -mcpu=[itanium1|itanium2] and make itanium2 the default. I'm OK with that. Long term, I think writing testcases the way Jan did is a better solution, but we've got 2k nops in just the opc-*.d files alone, and fixing

Re: [Bug gas/803] gas should avoid F-unit NOPs (and B-unit probably, too)

2005-03-24 Thread James E Wilson
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:22, hjl at lucon dot org wrote: > --- Additional Comments From hjl at lucon dot org 2005-03-25 02:22 > --- > Can we modify the patch to have it a switch to turn it on/off and make it > on by default? Then, we can just turn it off in the existing testcases and > ad