broken 'as' or broken snapshot ?

[David C Binderman]

At 11:42 PM 7/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>However, the egcs configure.in file has a check to see whether the
>assembler can support this.  Evidently that check failed; that should
>probably be examined before the 1.1 release, and fixed if there is a
>bug.  Perhaps the config.log file can shed some light on why the check
>failed.

I checked up on this and found that the configure script worked fine.
It tries a small assembler program for the feature, finds it fails, 
and then doesn't set a flag.

My opinion is that the flag is not tested before the feature is used.
I think this is in config/i386/*

This sounds like quite a big bug for the Linux/i386 community.
I suspect not all of us run the latest binutils.

Regards
David C Binderman MSc BSc	+44 1293 534847		dcb@pncl.co.uk