2.5.8-pre1 binutils-related regression on x86

Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:33:24 +0200 (MET DST)


2.5.8-pre1 includes the following patch:

diff -Nru a/arch/i386/boot/setup.S b/arch/i386/boot/setup.S
--- a/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Wed Apr 3 17:11:13 2002
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/setup.S Wed Apr 3 17:11:13 2002
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@
cmpw $0, %cs:realmode_swtch
jz rmodeswtch_normal

- lcall *%cs:realmode_swtch
+ lcall %cs:realmode_swtch

jmp rmodeswtch_end

The "*" was put there early in the 2.5 series, to allow non-
antique binutils to assemble the code cleanly without warnings.
This patch reintroduces those warnings. Uncool.

/Mikael
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