[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix asm syntax
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:33:32PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > >However, I don't think there's a disadvantage to the more compatible > >syntax, is there? > > While not producing bad side effects here (as Keir convinced me), it is > generally wrong (i.e. it would work right only because of the more than > odd constraint on the operand, which are needed to work around a > quirk in the assembler that was fixed about ten months ago). However, > the / prefix separation in general has been supported for far more than > a year, so I wonder what specific problem you were seeing (and with > how old an assembler)... The standard GNU ld is currently still 2.15 on Solaris. If there's serious objections to not using the newer syntax, we can always keep it as a local hack until we've updated. We're releasing our sources after all. regards, john _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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