[Bug gas/10012] New: Cross assembler chokes on parenthesized division

[oremanj at rwcr dot net]

While trying to get gPXE to compile on OS X, using a binutils 2.19 i386-elf
cross toolchain, I ran into a very strange error with the assembler.
Specifically, if it comes across division within parentheses, in a
.equ/.byte/.word/.long expression or an immediate operand, it loses track of the
right parenthesis and reports an error.

Simple test case:

<pre>
$ echo '.equ a, (4/2)' | i386-elf-as
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1: Error: missing ')'
</pre>

This behavior appears on unmodified binutils versions 2.18, 2.19, and 2.19.1. A
native Linux binutils 2.18 does not show the behavior.

-- 
           Summary: Cross assembler chokes on parenthesized division
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.19
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gas
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: oremanj at rwcr dot net
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
  GCC host triplet: i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
GCC target triplet: i386-elf


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10012

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