[Bug gas/1433] IA64 assembler generates bad 2.6.9 Linux kernel.

[rth at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From rth at redhat dot com  2005-10-07 01:52 -------
Subject: Re:  IA64 assembler generates bad 2.6.9 Linux kernel.

> 2) Why does the kernel care whether we use slot 1 or slot 2 here?

It's got some runtime code patching code that assumes it.

> Maybe the kernel can be fixed?

Yep.  ia64_patch_imm64 and ia64_patch_imm60 can use

        (insn_addr & -16) + {1,2}
instead of
        insn_addr - {1,0}

when calling ia64_patch.


r~


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