assembling with gas
Tom Tkacik
tkacik at kyzyl.mi.org
Mon May 6 00:08:57 AEST 1991
In article <1991May4.040336.10403 at texrex.uucp>, rmfowler at texrex.uucp (Rex Fowler) 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)
>
> If you've ever tried to compile perl, you know what I'm talking about.
> perl 3.0 pl44 wasn't much problem but 4.0 has got me stumped.
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.
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