Hi Vincent,
(I have not forgotten about this problem, but I am really swamped
just at the moment).
However, I'm quite surprised when I look at the b-cvs-elf.o symbol table : the
_f symbol is both undefined and defined in the .text segment !
This is because of the stab warning - it creates
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-14 09:37
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Subject: Re: stab warnings cause linker errors
Hi Vincent,
(I have not forgotten about this problem, but I am really swamped
just at the moment).
> However, I'm quite surprised when I look at the b-cvs-elf.
Other than in 2.18, this code
.intel_syntax noprefix
.text
Start:
cvtsi2sd xmm0, [ecx]
cvtsi2ss xmm0, [ecx]
no longer assembles ('ambiguous operand size ...') - the assembler expects a
'dword ptr' operand size specifier, which should only be needed when assembling
64-bit code (whe
--- Additional Comments From jbeulich at novell dot com 2008-05-14 12:24
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This should of course also be adjusted for vcvts12sd/vcvts12ss.
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Rather than reporting 'suffix or operands invalid ...' on all three instructions
when there is no operand size specifier on the memory operand, 'ambiguous
operand size ...' should be reported - the former message implies that a memory
operand may not be used at all here:
.intel_syntax noprefix
.te
NEWS says (since 2.6):
* When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols
__start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the section name, at the
beginning and the end of the section. This
--- Additional Comments From ian at airs dot com 2008-05-14 13:28 ---
Subject: Re: stab warnings cause linker errors
Nick Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem seems to be that when the undefined reference to _f occurs
> in b.s before the definition, then when b.o is conver
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-14 15:00
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Subject: Re: stab warnings cause linker errors
Hi Ian,
> If I understand what you are getting at, that's how warning symbols
> work. Look at MWARN in linker.c. It creates a new symbol, and sets
> u.i.link to p
