On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Vaish Anjur wrote:
Thank you for any pointers.
Learn what .S means? For some reason you tried to compile .s*, and although that happens to match on your benighted OS, .s and .S are not the same.
I have no idea why you are asking here. That file is not part of R and you have not told us where you found it. There is a file of that name as part of a *copy of xzutils* shipped with the R sources, and R compiles it correctly: and you can read the sources for yourself to see how it does it.
Windows XP ** *# as -version GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.19.1 Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later. This program has absolutely no warranty. This assembler was configured for a target of `mingw32'.* ** ** *as -o crc32_x86.o crc32_x86.s* crc32_x86.S: Assembler messages: crc32_x86.S:80: Warning: .type pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef ignored. crc32_x86.S:80: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `L' crc32_x86.S:83: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic crc32_x86.S:118: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `|' crc32_x86.S:137: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic crc32_x86.S:160: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic crc32_x86.S:271: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic crc32_x86.S:279: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression crc32_x86.S:279: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `,' crc32_x86.S:281: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.indirect_symbol' crc32_x86.S:293: Warning: .size pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef ignored. crc32_x86.S:293: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `L' crc32_x86.S:302: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-' [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
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