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Re: More problems on Alpha
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: More problems on Alpha
- From: Dave Gilbert <gilbertd at treblig dot org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:01:50 +0000 (GMT)
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 10:16:13PM +0000, Dave Gilbert wrote:
> I don't know whether this problem is due to a bug in as or failing
> to give as the proper command line option to enable the instructions.
> However, with the 971225 snapshot, we now emit a .arch directive, which
> will certainly cure the later, and, due to the fact that you must
> upgrade to at least 2.8.1.0.18, perhaps the former as well.
As stated in my mail to another list; 2.8.1.0.18 now fixes this.
> > Another problem I had was that compiling some of my own code I got:
> > 'string too long' from the assembler; it turned out to be a string over 4K
> > in length from a .stabs directive describing a rbtree from the Standard
> > Template Library. Is this an EGCS or binutils problem?
>
> This is an assembler problem. Which I thought I'd fixed (or kludged
> around) long ago... If it still happens after your binutils upgrade,
> let me know.
Yep - I've just tried my code - 2.8.1.0.18 fixes that as well!
Great work!
Dave
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