Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!wotan!moxie!central!vector!egsner!texrex!rmfowler From: rmfowler@texrex.uucp (Rex Fowler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: assembling with gas Message-ID: <1991May8.035216.15851@texrex.uucp> Date: 8 May 91 03:52:16 GMT References: <1991May4.040336.10403@texrex.uucp> <334@kyzyl.mi.org> Reply-To: rmfowler@texrex.cirr.com Organization: texrex - Personal 3b1 System - Dallas, TX Lines: 31 In article <334@kyzyl.mi.org> tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik) writes: >In article <1991May4.040336.10403@texrex.uucp>, rmfowler@texrex.uucp writes: >> What I'm wanting to do is see if gas is able to assemble teval.s >> from the perl 4.0.0.3 distribution. eval.c compiled fine but the >> tainted version (teval.c) won't (ie. Branch offset too remote) [ I'm trying to compile with gcc but as(1) won't assemble teval.s ] >> > >I just took a quick look at the man page for as(1). There is a -j switch >to as(1) that "invokes the long-jump assembler." This looks like it >should solve your problem with the branch offsets being too long. > >I have not tried this, so let us know if it works. I tried it, it doesn't help. > >-- >Tom Tkacik | >tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org | To rent this space, call 1-800-555-QUIP. >...!rphroy!kyzyl!tkacik | By the way, I did succeed in building perl 4.003 with setuid/setgid emulation with the stock cc. Also, I haven't rec'd any info on assembling with gas yet, so if you're waiting on the other guy to tell me, wait no longer. -- Rex Fowler UUCP: egsner!texrex!rmfowler