Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend

[Gunther Nikl <gni at gecko dot de>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:30:07AM +0200, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:03, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> 
>  > >  So it seems it's not a problem for the Amiga. Now the only reason
>  > > to keep the MIT syntax alive is that you do like it. What do you
>  > > care about assembly automatically generated by GCC for as?
>  >
>  >   My GAS version doesn't understand Motorola syntax.
> 
>  You mean on the Amiga? Mine does and it's pretty old.

  As I said my GAS used with GCC doesn't understand it, its not even a BFD
  version.

>  >   BTW, http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-07/msg00454.html shows that
>  > OpenBSD is probably using a GAS version that doesn't support Motorola
>  > syntax.
> 
>  Yes, I'm afraid it's the only obstacle left. I've asked Karel Gardas
> to look at the documentation for as and confirm it.

  Removing MIT would also mean that I can't use recent GCC version with a
  system assembler on older systems anymore.

>  I still don't understand why the OpenBSD people didn't upgrade their
> assembler the same way the NetBSD people did.

  OpenBSD/m68k is a.out and not ELF. AFAIK, the binutils used by a.out m68k
  on NetBSD/OpenBSD had modifications for shared libraries not available in
  later official binutil versions.

  Gunther