broken 'as' or broken snapshot ?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199807030054.RAA27827@kankakee.wrs.com >you write:
  > > Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 20:21:31 +0100 (BST)
  > > To: egcs-bugs@cygnus.com
  > > From: David C Binderman <dcb@pncl.co.uk>
  > 
  > > I have tried to bootstrap both egcs-980621 and egcs-980628 on
  > > --host=i586-pc-linux-gnulibc1 wth 'as' version 970202.
  > 
  > > In both cases, I got the following error message, and bootstrap fails.
  > 
  > > _divdi3
  > > /tmp/ccvNb5A4: Assembler messages:
  > > /tmp/ccvNb5A4:519: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character i
  > s `,'.
  > > 519:	.p2align 4,,7
  > > 541:	.p2align 4,,7
  > > 548:	.p2align 4,,7
  > > 560:	.p2align 4,,7
  > > 564:	.p2align 4,,7
  > 
  > > Is it time to upgrade my assembler
  > 
  > Yes.  Get binutils 2.9.1, sorry.
Well, it is to dcb's advantage to pick up a new assembler, but it is
not a requirement.  Basicially someone forgot some protective #ifdefs
and as a result some confis are using the new .p2align syntax when
the installed assembler does not support it.

jeff