Re: Error compiling 2.4 with CVS gcc on Athlon

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
2 Jan 2001 13:55:03 -0800


Followup to: <20010102123913.A19554@twiddle.net>
By author: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 03:12:37PM -0500, Ghadi Shayban wrote:
> > {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> > {standard input}:139: Error: bad register name `%%mm0'
>
> This is, in fact, a compiler bug. Somehow the "%%" in the
> source didn't print as "%" as expected.
>

Actually, gcc doesn't do % expansion (and hence %% -> %) if there are
no :'s in the asm() statement. I don't know if that's the issue here,
though.

-hpa

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