From: Tudor <tudor AT cam DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro make error
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 15:55:52 -0800
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Dim Zegebart wrote:
> 
> Roger Carbol wrote:
> >
> > 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
> 
> I have the same problem. And here are steps how to solve it.
> 1st You need to find those lines 252,269, the problem is that
> S scr preprocessed with asmdef.exe (build from asmdef.c in the Allegro
> src dir) so
> the gcc return error line number different from original line number. So
> use a small
> trick : open bank.s for edit in text editor wich display cursor position
> and
> type any symbol (for example @$@) at the line number about 240 and run
> make.
> GCC return error line number where you type @S@. Step this proc to finde
> lines 252 and 269.
> So here is output from fc . BANK is old version of file and BANK.S is a
> new file.
> 
> WARNING: I'm not shure my changes is absolutely right, so think twice
> before you applied it.
> 
> Comparing files BANK and BANK.S
> ***** BANK
>    movb %al, %ah              /* two 32k apertures, set bank and bank+1
> */
>    incl %ah       !!!!!!!!!!!!INCL applied to 32-bit regs
>    shll $8, %eax
> ***** BANK.S
>    movb %al, %ah              /* two 32k apertures, set bank and bank+1
> */
>    inc  %ah       !!!!!!!!!!!!!I change INCL to INC (may be it's wrong
> and you need change %AH to %EAX)
>    shll $8, %eax
> *****
> 
> And the same problem:
> 
> ***** BANK
> BANK_SWITCHER( __mach64_read_bank, __last_bank_2,
>    pushl %edx
> 
> ***** BANK.S
> BANK_SWITCHER( __mach64_read_bank, __last_bank_2,
>    pushl %dx
> 
> *****
> --
> Regards,
> Dim Zegebart,
> Moscow Russia.
If you want the exact changes,take wip.zip from the allegro page.
It's got some cool 3d functions too...:)
-- 
tudor 'at' cam 'dot' org
http://www.cam.org/~tudor

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