Subject: Re: Assembler and locore.s
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
From: Adam Glass <glass@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/05/1994 20:11:58
> I too had problems with locore.s (first with Sun's as and then with gas).
> Here are some changes to make it compile with any gas version.  (It might
> compile with Sun's as too with different macros in m68k.h so the first
> hunk of changes are for Sun as compatibility.)
> 
> This change works around a bug in gas-1.92 but in a rather ugly way.
> One SHOULD be able to write just "pea argv" but gas assembles this
> instruction incorrectly.  My solution is the sledge hammer below.
> 
> Gordon Ross
> 

I installed your sledge hammer solution (generating the opcodes
directly) in my last set of changes to the tree.

I didn't install the other changes (to make it assemble with sun's as)
as the port is supposed to be assembled with 'gas' as that is the
assembler we distrbute.

later,
Adam Glass

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