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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 18:10:22 +0100
From:      Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, roger@cs.strath.ac.uk
Subject:   a.out format and MMX instructions on 3.0-release
Message-ID:  <3628CF7E.7BDB136A@cs.strath.ac.uk>

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Hi,

On 3.0-RELEASE, when GAS is called to assemble a.out code, is it using
gas 2.9.1 or does it link
back to the old a.out toolchain assembler.

On my 3.0-current test machine 6 months ago, I upgraded gas with GAS
2.9.1. from GNU's binutils
by building a local copy of GAS for the i386-unknown-bsd-aout target.
I could happily build a.out binaries which included inline MMX assembler
code in my C files.

Unfer 3.0-RELEASE, if I rebuild my project with gcc -aout, it Rejects
the MMX instructions,
indicating it is not using gas 2.9.1 in aout mode but switching back to
old toolchain code.

Any comments on this.
I run a mix of 2.2.5 and 3.0 systems so I wanted to keep a.out for now.

Bye
Roger Hardiman
Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Group

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