On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 06:23:13AM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 12:07 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:41:27AM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote: > > > GNU assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23 > > > [...] > > > gcc -Iboot/i386/pc -I./boot/i386/pc -I. -Iinclude -I./include -Wall -W > > > -DASM_FILE=1 -nostdinc -fno-builtin -m32 -MD -c -o > > > lnxboot_img-boot_i386_pc_lnxboot.o boot/i386/pc/lnxboot.S > > > lnxboot.S: Assembler messages: > > > lnxboot.S:49: Error: `0x200+data_start - data_next(%ebx,%eax)' is not a > > > valid 16 bit base/index expression > > > lnxboot.S:264: Error: `(%esi,%eax)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index > > > expression > > > lnxboot.S:265: Error: `(%edi,%eax)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index > > > expression > > > gmake: *** [lnxboot_img-boot_i386_pc_lnxboot.o] Error 1 > > > > > > I hope someone here may have a clue how to fix the problem. I ignore > > > almost everything about the Assembly language. > > > > I don't see anything wrong in the code (`(%esi,%eax)' is indeed not a valid > > 16 bit base/index, but it AFAICT it isn't meant to be). > > > > However, your binutils are a bit old. Perhaps this is a bug they fixed ? > > > > Anyway, maybe this solves the problem for you: > > > > + .code32 > > leal 0x200 + data_start - data_next(%ebx,%eax), %eax > > + .code16 > > > > (please report if it does) > > > Yes it did, thanks!
You mean upgrading binutils, or appliing my suggested change? > I continue to upgrade my applications, like bison, it seems to misbehave > on the normal/parser.y file on '%' character. Can you give more details? Perhaps it'd make sense to work around it. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
