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Need --divide flag for assembly of startup.S on some platforms


From: Seth Goldberg
Subject: Need --divide flag for assembly of startup.S on some platforms
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:15:10 -0800 (PST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.00 (GSO 1167 2008-08-23)

Hi,

When assembling grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S, gas on some platforms chokes on this line:

       movl    $((LOCAL(bypass_table_end) - LOCAL(bypass_table)) / 2), %ecx

Because on non i386-linux targets, '/' is used as a comment delimiter for compatibility purposes. This can be overridden with the --divide switch.

Since the default for gas on these platforms is to use he division operator as a comment delimiter, the "-Wa,--divide" flags need to be passed on the gcc command line when assembling such files.

 --S



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