Re: egcs-CVS19980627, mips-sgi-irix6.2 bootstrap problem ...

[Martin Knoblauch <knobi at rocketmail dot com>]

---Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> wrote:
>
> 
>   In message
<199806292359.QAA00248@rtl.cygnus.com>you write:
>   > Apparently, the new SGI assembler requires that
assembler files end with a .s.
>   > If there is no .s extension, then the assembler
does the same thing the
>   > compiler would, it treats it as an object file
that should be passed to the
>   > linker.  The linker then gives an error because
an assembler file is not
>   > a valid object file.
> Damn "smart" assemblers.
>

 Actually, the SGI assembler just uses the standard
compiler driver. As it has to do the right thing
with ".s", ".o" and executables, it just passes
everything that smells like an executable to "ld".
this has been the case forever. Last weeks changes
seem to have it brough to light :-)

> 
>   > If it is necessary to drop the extension for
security reasons, then we have

 OOOp. What are the security reasons? Just curious.

Martin




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