Asm problems with gcc and libc compilation

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr  5, 2001, Andrew Lees <andrewl@acay.com.au> wrote:

> I have tried both gcc-2.95 and gcc-2.7.2.  In both cases I get
> errors when compiling the libc5 library, specifically compiling some
> cases of syscall* for the *shared* library build only.

ebx is a fixed register when compiling with -fPIC, so it can't be used
in asm statements.  Recent versions of GCC started to detect this
incorrect usage, that might silently generate incorrect code in
earlier releases.

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