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From: eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Error in ST MINIX assembler
Summary: Only ST, not ACK
Message-ID: <1839@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:03:54 GMT
References: <32002@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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In article <32002@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen) writes:
> While hunting a suspected bug in c68, I found that the ST MINIX as is
> broken:
> sub.l #0xFFFF0001,...
> sub.l #0xABCD0001,...
> sub.l #0x7FFF0001,...
> are all converted to
> subq.l #1,...
> 
[stuff deleted]

Quite correct - how amusing ......

For those looking at this, the problem does not occur with the ACK assembler
running as a cross-assembler on a Sun, so either the ST assembler sources are
different to the generic ACK ones, or we have been bitten by yet another 
sizeof(int) bug.

Sorry I can't fix it myself or be more helpful, but Transmediair are still
resisting any of my attempts to get them to sell me the ST compiler sources !

Andy Michael


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