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To: Gunther Hipper <gunther@informatik.uni-rostock.de>
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Subject: Re: A Problem: ../../i386/i386/locore.s:705: Error: bad register name 
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I ran into the same issue and was able to resolve it by building a new
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/as from the -current.  It appears that this was the
first use of %cr4 in any of the .s modules and the assembler from previous 
versions didn't know about the definition.