[Bug target/66509] the new clang-based assembler in Xcode 7 on 10.11 fails on the libjava/java/lang/reflect/natArray.cc file from FSF gcc 5.1 at -m32

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Thu Jun 11 21:24:00 GMT 2015


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66509

--- Comment #16 from Jack Howarth <howarth.at.gcc at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to mrs@gcc.gnu.org from comment #15)
> The fix requires that binutils also support the () spelling as the test runs
> on all x86 systems.  Also, it will break systems older then when () was
> first introduced, if it was after filds itself was supported.  I don't know
> when each was new.

Seems like a question for H.J. Lu. Also, it looks like we already have a few
instances of that syntax in current gcc trunk...

% grep " (%" gcc/configure
    $as_echo 'lock xacquire cmpxchg %esi, (%ecx)' > conftest.s
         lock addl %edi, (%eax,%esi)
         lock orl $0, (%esp)' > conftest.s



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