Path: utzoo!telly!ddsw1!spl1!lll-winken!uunet!nuchat!orion@nuchat
From: orion@nuchat (Roland Dunkerley)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: gas 1.28 (I guess.) bug SysV/386
Summary: gcc uses .ln psuedo, but gas doesn't know it
Keywords: gas gcc System V 80386 Libyan Terrorists Bomb Drug Airline
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Date: 13 Jan 89 05:54:38 GMT
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Reply-To: orion@nuchat.UU.NET (Roland Dunkerley)
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Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Houston, Tx.
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Cc: orion steve

I think I have found a disagreement between gcc 1.32 and gas "1.28 (I 
guess.)"  (that's the version number I get back from gas -v).  Anyway,
gcc produces lines of the form .ln ### (where ### is presumably a line
number in the source file) in the .s file produced by gcc-cc1, and
these are not supported by gas.  Any suggestions?   Also on another
note, although I will make a formal announcement later when I package
up my fixes to ship to rms, I've discovered a problem with robotussin
and the /lib/crt1.o on our SysV/386 box, it seems that robotussin
doesn't know how to handle .init sections properly.  My fix was to
edit the file /lib/crt1.o (actually a copy of it so as not to destroy
the original) replacing .init with .text, I then ran the resultant
file through ld as follows:
ld oocrt1.o crt1.ld -o ocrt1.o
where crt1.ld contains:
SECTIONS
{
	.text: { }
	.data: { }
	.bss:  { }
}
-----
This causes the two .text sections in oocrt1.o to be consolidated into
one .text section. the resulting file runs through robotussin fine.
Note that I have not tested this yet, due to the aforementioned
problem with gas.  More on this later when I know more.  Oh, by the
way, many thanks to those who worked on the gas and gdb 386 ports, gdb
inside emacs is a BIG win over sdb, if only it ran the program in a
term-mode window seperate from gdb...   Maybe I'll add that, what do
y'all think?  (would other people like that addition too?)
   more later,
    Roland Pleasant Dunkerley III, KSC
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