assembler on Linux-m68k and arla. (fwd)

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Janne Johansson <jj at dynarc.se> writes:

> > The offending lines look like this:
> > movl    %a6@(area2),%a0 
> > 
> > and changing them to
> > 
> > movl    a6@(area2),a0
> > 
> > makes it compile nicely again.
> > 
> > Since the arla-guys want it to work on all possible platforms
> > currently in use, I've volunteered to ask you linux-68k-folks
> > if it would break compilation on linux-68k if the asm for
> > 68k was changed to that format instead?
> 
> The first syntax is for ELF, the second for pre-ELF (a.out). Current
> Linux assemblers won't understand the second variant :-( (They would
> interpret the "a6" as a symbol, not as register name.)

Weird, the sunos/sun3 assembler seemed to use the % notation too.

I added a hack that might make it work, care to try it out ?

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