PR 26436 again?

[Tim Prince]

Salvatore Filippone wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 30/04/2008 alle 07.25 -0700, Tim Prince ha scritto:
>> Salvatore Filippone wrote:
>>> Hi there, 
>>> Using a self-compiled version of gcc 4.3.0 on an HP-Itanium 2 system
>>> with Linux kernel 2.4.21, I have seen the (infamous) message 
>>> /tmp/ccu6kPNd.s:24139: Warning: Use of 'mov' may violate WAW dependency 'GR%, % in 1 - 127' (impliedf), specific resource number is 14
>>>
>>> from the subject PR. The assembler used is :
>>> $ as -v
>>> GNU assembler version 2.14.90.0.4 (ia64-redhat-linux) using BFD version 2.14.90.0.4 20030523
>>>
>>> Is this something to be worried about? From bugzilla it looks like the
>>> original problem was never fully fixed...
>> That is an extremely old buggy binutils.  The oldest binutils which I have 
>> been able to use successfully for IA64 is
>> binutils-2.15.92.0.2-19.ia64.rpm
>> (not from a concern about spurious warnings).
>> If you are using the binutils which red hat issued with EL4.3, there was a 
>> red hat hot fix for premature exhaustion of short data segment.
> 
> I have no control over that machine, but I'll forward the info to the
> sysadmins.
You could download up to date binutils source, e.g. from ftp.kernel.org, 
and configure it to install in your own space, e.g. along with your own 
gcc, If you can use your own gcc, surely you can use your personal 
compatible binutils.  Note the binutils related configure options of gcc. 
  Replacing the binutils in /usr/bin is of more interest to those whose 
applications using other compilers are broken.