PATCH:

[Mark Mitchell]

H. J. Lu wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:44:25PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
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>>In a 32-bit->64-bit cross compilation environment, GCC may emit 8-byte
>>integer literals as signed values.  However, GAS does not handle "-"
>>applied to a bignum, so the assembler will fail to assemble such
>>files.  This patch adds support for applying "~", "-", and "!" to
>>bignums in GAS.
>>
>>OK to apply?
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>Can you add a testcase? I have been building ia64 binutils on ia32.
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Sure, I can add a testcase if the patch is approved.

It is basically just:

  .8byte - <big 64-bit number here>

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