Re: [linuxsh-dev] #pragma pack

[Greg B. <gb...@po...>]

Bryan Rittmeyer wrote:
> 
> Greg Banks wrote:
> 
> >   That's right.  I said it compiles, I didn't say it compiles cleanly ;-)
> > The situation with the new toolchain is currently even worse, due to the
> > whole $ in register names business.
> 
> Ugh. I just dealt with some pretty nasty stuff, even with the old
> toolchain. Namely, the use of "'" in !'d assembly comments. Apparently,
> they now cause "unterminated character constant" errors. I just went
> through by hand and removed them from entry.S, memmove.S, etc... I never
> saw this before with the old kernel code, and I have a hard time
> believing it doesn't have any "'"s in ! comments, but oh well.
> 2.4.0-prerelease is building now, with the old toolchain.

  No, this is actually a Makefile problem.  You need to have
the -traditional flag to the assembler runs, then the warnings about
unterminated char constants go away.  Only a few days ago I checked
in some LinuxSH Makefile tweaks to make that happen properly. I'll
go see if they're still there.

Greg.
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