>>>>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:15:18 +0200, Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> said: Thiemo> It shouldn't trigger for 32bit, because 0x80000000 is a Thiemo> sign-extended 32bit number. How is mips-linux-as actually Thiemo> invoked? Like this (using mipsel): $ mipsel-linux-gcc -o b.o -c -v b.S Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-linux/3.3/specs Configured with: ../gcc-3.3/configure --target=mipsel-linux --prefix=/usr --disable-nls --enable-languages=c --disable-shared --disable-threads Thread model: single gcc version 3.3 /usr/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-linux/3.3/cc1 -E -lang-asm -quiet -v -D__GNUC__=3 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=3 -D__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__=0 b.S -o /tmp/cceVg6Jo.s ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/mipsel-linux/sys-include" ignoring nonexistent directory "/usr/mipsel-linux/include" #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-linux/3.3/include End of search list. /usr/lib/gcc-lib/mipsel-linux/3.3/../../../../mipsel-linux/bin/as -EL -g0 -32 -v -KPIC -o b.o /tmp/cceVg6Jo.s GNU assembler version 2.14 (mipsel-linux) using BFD version 2.14 20030612 b.S: Assembler messages: b.S:1: Error: load/store address overflow (max 32 bits) The b.S is just one line "lw $2, 0x80000000". Just typing "mipsel-linux-as -o b.o b.S" produces same error. --- Atsushi Nemoto