binutils 2.9 is broken on x86

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> This test case fails to assemble for {COFF,ELF} {GAS,OpenServer as}.
> 
> ./as in this example is that nasty shell script wrapper I've had hanging
> around forever.
> 
> The GAS I use is the one from the binutils 2.9 candidates area. I think
> there has been one more since.
> 
> 
> I don't understand the issue well enough to register an opinion.  I'm
> just offering that the behaviour (fatal error) I see from GAS is very
> consistent with what we see from OpenServer's as.

Glad to see the current gas catch the bug. BTW, I hope my egcs patch
will show up eventually on the egcsmailing list :-).

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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)