From:	"Chris A. Triebel" <cat AT sun4 DOT iol DOT unh DOT edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro make error
Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 1996 07:34:26 -0500
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On 16 Dec 1996, Roger Carbol wrote:

> Date: 16 DEC 1996 23:20:35 GMT 
> From: Roger Carbol <rog AT col DOT ca>
> Newgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Subject: Allegro make error 
> 
> Well, I download Allegro, with much anticipation as it looks like
> pretty much the coolest thing since sliced breadboards.
> 
> So I ran make.  Then I re-unzipped it with -d and ran make again.
> 
> It got farther, but then resulted in the following message:
> 
> >   gcc -I. -Isrc -Wall -o obj/bank.o -c src/bank.S
> >   c:/djgpp/tmp\ccbaaaaa: Assembler messages:
> >   c:/djgpp/tmp\ccbaaaaa:252: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
> >   c:/djgpp/tmp\ccbaaaaa:269: Error: register does not match opcode suffix
> >   make.exe: *** [obj/bank.o] Error 1
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on why this occurred?  (I can provide more info
> on my platform, the source and version of Allegro, etc if that would
> be useful.)
> 
> 
> Thanks for everyone's help,
> 
> 
> Roger Carbol .. rog AT col DOT ca .. sigh

This looks like a recently documented problem with allegro and djgpp 2.01


I believe that solution is to change the assembly instructions

To quote from another email sent out by Eli ...

"
There are two lines in bank.S which say "incl %ah".  You should change
them to say "incb %ah" instead.  Allegro was developed with DJGPP v2.0,
but the assembler which comes with DJGPP v2.01 is less permissive with
regard to operator-operand size mismatches (AH is a byte-wide register,
but incl is an instruction to increment a 32-bit wide entity). 
"

Pardon me if this isn't truly the problem.

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