From: jih-shin ho <u7711501 AT bicmos DOT ee DOT nctu DOT edu DOT tw>
Subject: Re: gas 2.1.1 bug?
To: WKIM AT vms DOT cis DOT pitt DOT edu (Wonkoo Kim, EE, U. of Pittsburgh)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 21:02:58 EAT
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

> 
> Hi.
> 
> When I execute "as -v" that comes from the new djgpp 1.10/gcc 2.4.1, 
> I have the following error message:
> 
>     D:\TMP> as -v
>     Segmentation violation in pointer 0xcccccccd at 40:18a21
>     Page fault at eip=18a21
>     Call frame traceback EIPs:
>       0x00018a21
>       0x00017449
>       0x0000aa5d
> 
> But, with as.exe from gas21.zip obtained from djgpp/pub of omnigate, I have:
> 
>     D:\TMP> as -v
>     GNU assembler version 2.1 (i386-ibm-go32)
> 
> The gas.exe of the djgpp/gcc 1.10/2.4.1 release seems to have some bug.
> (I keep all the same system environments as 1.09/2.2.2 in 1.10/2.4.1 upgrade.)
> Could anybody check it out?  
> 
> (Zipped file name and docs confused me in version number:  What is the actual 
> version number?  gas 2.1.1 or 2.2.1?) 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wonkoo Kim.
> 

Please don't use gas21.zip. Use GAS21FIX.ZIP.
I build these files using cross-compiler with version 1.09 library.

I also build cross-linker that can produce COFF output files. I will upload
it to omnigate if I can login to this site.

  -- Jih-Shin Ho