[Bug target/30974] pdp11-dec-bsd will not successfully build

egallager at gcc dot gnu.org gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Fri Mar 2 12:06:00 GMT 2018


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30974

Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Paul Koning from comment #4)
> At this point pdp11-*-bsd has been removed.  It probably could be put back
> in.
> 
> The error is caused by the fact that gcc is generating assembly code for the
> 2BSD unix assembler, but you're feeding it to gas.  The "other" assembly
> format, even though it's called "DEC assembler" is actually the format
> expected by pdp11-gas.  
> 
> As a workaround you can compile with -mdec-asm.  What we really need here is
> a --with-gnu-as configure switch that tells the pdp11 target code to default
> to the "dec" (really GNU) assembler format.

Given that it doesn't seem to have been put back in in all this time, would it
make sense to close this bug?


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