Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:18:14 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.21 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Dieter Kraft wrote: > > bbootsect.s:619: Error: base/index register must be 32 bit register > > That's actually a gas bug, introduced when the gas people tightened up > their requirements, and they seem to have tightened them a bit too much. > The 16-bit register is actually the correct one in 16-bit mode, and a > 32-bit register is very much not correct. > > Who maintains gas these days? We'll make the kernel use the 32-bit > register to work around the gas bug for now, but it definitely IS a gas > bug, and it would be good to get it fixed. >
Not at all! Definitevely at least in the following binutils version this bug isn't present. Please have a look at the patch I have just send out.
rpm -q binutils binutils-2.9.5.0.14-1
--Marcin
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