egcs-19981012 - parsing troubles in assembler

[Michal Jaegermann]

egcs-19981012 on Linux/Alpha

Trying recompilation of a file from Linux kernel sources I get the
following (plus many more lines of errors):

/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include/asm/byteorder.h: In function `__ntohl':
In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include/linux/in.h:120,
                 from drivers/net/slhc.c:65:
/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include/asm/byteorder.h:55: output operand constraint lacks `='
/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include/asm/byteorder.h: In function `__ntohs':
/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include/asm/byteorder.h:76: output operand constraint lacks `='

The fragment of a header file in question (from line 76 onwards) looks
like follows:

......
	: "r="(res), "r="(t1) : "r"(x));
	return res;
}

and the file itsels did not change from July 1, 1996.

This, indeed, prevents a bug I was reporting early (about problems
with inlined functions and -O2) from showing up - but likely because
optimizer was never reached.  This price seem to be a bit excessive. :-)

  Michal Jaegermann
  michal@harddata.com
  michal@ellspace.math.ualberta.ca