On Jan 15, 2011, at 10:48 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Amittai Aviram <amittai.aviram@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> I am creating a GCC (4.5.2) that uses a modified libgomp. My libgomp has a file that contains the following line of code:
>>
>> asm volatile("mov %%rbp, %0" : "=m" (rbp) );
>>
>> I attempted to compile this on a 64-bit machine running under 64-bit Ubuntu:
>>
>> $ uname -a
>>
>> Linux dedis 2.6.32-27-server #49-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:05:21 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> But my build failed, with the assembler error that "rbp" was an unrecognized register name. I changed this to ebp, and it compiled fine. However, my code then failed, presumably because it was getting an invalid address.
>>
>> I figured out a workaround that seems fine, but I wanted to know why I was getting this assembler error and what I should have done about it.
>
> You got the assembler error in 32-bit mode because in the x86 assembly
> language rbp refers to the 64-bit version of the register and ebp refers
> to the 32-bit version (and bp refers to the 16-bit version). In 32-bit
> mode there is no 64-bit version of the register and therefore rbp is
> invalid.
>
> Ian
But I am working on 64-bit hardware running a 64-bit Linux kernel (x86_64). Why does the assembler think I'm in 32-bit mode?
Amittai Aviram
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Yale University
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