binutils 2.9 is broken on x86

[Robert Lipe]

> >    > gcc.sum:FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/980329-1.c,  -O2 
> >    > /tmp/cca17739.s: Assembler messages:
> >    > /tmp/cca17739.s:75: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
> 
> I guess it is ok for short term. If I am correct, as on SCO doesn't
> like it either. My egcs patch should fix gcc.c-torture/compile/980329-1.c
> on SCO too. That is a real bug in egcs. But the current gas doesn't
> catch it. Mine and as on SCO do.

(SCO makes a couple of different operating systems.  I'm commenting 
on OpenServer 5.0.4.)

As luck would have it, I just happen to have handy an egcs build tree
with GNU as wired into it.

(robertl) rjlhome:/play/negcs/gcc
$ ./xgcc -mcoff -B./ -O3 /tmp/980329-1.c
/usr/tmp/cca000Yh.s: Assembler messages:
/usr/tmp/cca000Yh.s:75: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
(robertl) rjlhome:/play/negcs/gcc
$ ./xgcc -melf -B./ -O3 /tmp/980329-1.c
/usr/tmp/cca000Yo.s: Assembler messages:
/usr/tmp/cca000Yo.s:76: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
(robertl) rjlhome:/play/negcs/gcc
$ mv as as_
(robertl) rjlhome:/play/negcs/gcc
$ ./xgcc -mcoff -B./ -O3 /tmp/980329-1.c
Assembler: 980329-1.c
        aline 75        : Syntax error
(robertl) rjlhome:/play/negcs/gcc
$ ./xgcc -melf -B./ -O3 /tmp/980329-1.c
/usr/tmp/cca000Z0.s:76:invalid register for instruction: %di in incb

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.

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