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Re: [patches] Re: intel gas and `--32'
Thanks for taking care for this!
> -#ifdef OBJ_ELF
> - case OPTION_32:
> +
> case OPTION_64:
> {
> const char **list, **l;
>
> - default_arch = c == OPTION_32 ? "i386" : "x86_64";
> list = bfd_target_list ();
> for (l = list; *l != NULL; l++)
> - {
> - if (c == OPTION_32)
> - {
> - if (strcmp (*l, "elf32-i386") == 0)
> - break;
> - }
> - else
> - {
> - if (strcmp (*l, "elf64-x86-64") == 0)
> - break;
> - }
> - }
> + if (strcmp (*l, "elf64-x86-64") == 0)
> + {
> + default_arch = "x86_64";
> + break;
> + }
> if (*l == NULL)
> - as_fatal (_("No compiled in support for %d bit object file format"),
> - c == OPTION_32 ? 32 : 64);
> + as_fatal (_("No compiled in support for x86_64"));
> free (list);
> }
> break;
> #endif
> +
> + case OPTION_32:
> + default_arch = "i386";
> + break;
It seems to me that this breaks x86_64 target - specifying --32 option
will no longer make it to switch into elf32 format and if you build
gas w/o 32bit elf support --32 option will not produce error message.
Honza