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Re: as 2.15 produces unbalanced parenthesis error, version 2.13 OK
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Alan Modra |
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Re: as 2.15 produces unbalanced parenthesis error, version 2.13 OK |
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Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:51:49 +1030 |
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:06:01PM +0000, Hamilton, Ian wrote:
> cmpl $(100/4), %eax
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> address@hidden temp]$ i386-elf-as -a test.S
> test.S: Assembler messages:
> test.S:2: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1.
For compatibility with other assemblers, '/' starts a comment on the
i386-elf target. So you can't use division. If you configure for
i386-linux (or any of the bsds, or netware), you won't have this
problem.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre