Message-Id:	<199610252210.SAA04172@delorie.com>
From:	"Troy D. Van Horn" <trvanhor AT UCollege DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: How to compile Allergo 2.1 under DJGPP 2.01 (gcc 2.7.2.1) ?
To:	pmo AT fmsc DOT com DOT au
Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:10:26 CDT
Cc:	trvanhor AT SNOOPY DOT UCollege DOT edu, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<199610251521.LAA20404@delorie.com>; from "Troy D. Van Horn" at Oct 25, 96 10:21 am

> > outb %al, %dx   (line 252) and
> > outl %eax, %dx  (line 269)
> > 
> > Can any AT&T assembler gurus tell me whats wrong with these two
> lines?  Or do 

> > Peter Monks                                 pmo AT fmsc DOT com DOT au

> 
> Peter,
>      There isn't anything wrong with those lines as near as I can tell
> (and you do have the right ones). I just tried it and got the same
> error messages myself. I think this is a bug in GAS 2.7 because the
> instruction in line 252 appears a few lines above it and GAS does not
> generate an error from it.
>      There are two possible solutions that I can see. Either you can
> replace these outs with .byte 0xXX of the object code of these
> instructions, or do what I have done and replace as.exe with the one
> from binutils 2.5.2 until a fixed version of GAS is available. With the
> older version of GAS this assembles just fine, and I have had no other
> problems with this setup (though Eli doesn't recommend it). But then
> again, I havn't tried recompiling all of alegro with it.
> 
> Troy Van Horn
> 

     Please disregard the solutions I mentioned, for the real problem is
an error in bank.S in lines 227 and 244 which both have the instruction
"incl %ah" which should be "incb %ah". GAS 2.7 is reporting the correct
error, but giving incorrect line numbers.

Troy Van Horn

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