Re: binutils bug (Debian bug 336022 )

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
Ok, after all my badmouthing I finally get it. The new binutils fully supports 16 bit operations so it has become pickier when it comes to syntax. saying movl when you mean movw no longer cuts it because it really will try to move a long. I guess this makes sense. I wish it would have been annou

Re: binutils bug (Debian bug 336022 )

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
Ah, there they are, the mythical seg patches. I just needed to follow the thread into the bug report. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch Sorry if I've seemed OT here, but anyone who builds the k

binutils bug (Debian bug 336022 )

2005-12-21 Thread NZG
Hmm, it appears the the debian testing binutils "works fine" but all previous kernel versions have invalid assembly code, which binutils just now decided to start noticing. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-binutils/2005-04/msg00152.html It would be funny if I wasn't breaking all my stuff.