On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:06:00PM -0500, TWEDE,ROGER (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> Does anyone have any ideas why the i386->mipsel cross toolchain at
> oss.sgi.com:/pub/linux/redhat/7.1/RPMS/i386/toolchain* fails to build
> vgacon.o in the kernel's drivers/video directory?
>
>
> I get the following errors from the assembler:
> {standard input}:4683: Error: expression too complex
> {standard input}:4683: Fatal error: internal Error, line 1980,
> ../../tools-20011020/gas/config/tc-mips.c
> make[3]: *** [vgacon.o] Error 1
>
> Apparently the compiler has generated assembly which the assembler cannot
> handle.
> I compiled to a .s assembly file and line 4683 was simply 'sb $6,$5($3)'.
If you search the list archives, I've posted patches for this several
times. It's a compiler bug but can be worked around in io.h. $5($3)
is not a legal addressing mode.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
