mips-binutils-2.14/gas oddity

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 19:05, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > Found it - It was the day before yesterday, at least in binutils' list
> > archive ;)
> > 
> > Unfortunately his patch doesn't seem to help me:
> > 
> > Using a brand new binutils built from a freshly checked out
> > binutils-2.14-branch with Maciej's patch applied:
> > 
> > # mips-rtems4.7-as  -G0 -EB -mips1 -g0 -32 -v -o mipsbug.o mipsbug.s
> > GNU assembler version 2.14 (mips-rtems4.7) using BFD version 2.14 20030910
> > mipsbug.s: Assembler messages:
> > mipsbug.s:1: Error: load/store address overflow (max 32 bits)
> 
>  Please make sure you've actually rebuilt gas:

Urgh, I am soo stupid. I actually had built it, but picked up the wrong
one when testing :-(

> $ cat mipsbug.s
> 	sw	$8,0xfffe0130
> $ mips-linux-as -G0 -EB -mips1 -g0 -32 -v -o mipsbug.o mipsbug.s
> GNU assembler version 2.14 (mips-linux) using BFD version 2.14 20030612
> $ mips-linux-objdump -Sr mipsbug.o
> 
> mipsbug.o:     file format elf32-tradbigmips
> 
> Disassembly of section .text:
> 
> 00000000 <.text>:
>    0:	3c01fffe 	lui	at,0xfffe
>    4:	ac280130 	sw	t0,304(at)
> 	...
> $ as-new -G0 -EB -mips1 -g0 -32 -v -o mipsbug.o mipsbug.s
> GNU assembler version 2.14.90 (mips-rtems4.7) using BFD version 2.14.90 20030910
> $ objdump -Sr mipsbug.o
> 
> mipsbug.o:     file format elf32-bigmips
> 
> Disassembly of section .text:
> 
> 00000000 <.text>:
>    0:	3c01fffe 	lui	at,0xfffe
>    4:	ac280130 	sw	t0,304(at)
> 	...
Except of using binutils-2.14-branch, my results now exactly look like
yours.

Thanks,

	Ralf