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Article #1088Re: 3L C & the poison constant!
From: Scott Galuska
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 15:14
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 1990 15:14
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In article <671@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> rando@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Randy Brumbaugh) writes:
>I feel I have had more than my fair share of problems with the
>3L C compiler (IMHO). Now this . . .
>The 3L compiler/ assembler doesn't like the constant 0x20800000.
>Yes! That's right! It turns out that this is a very important
>constant for my application. Here is the input:
>func() { asm { ldc 0x20800000; } }
>This will produce an error message about an undefined forward
>reference. However, either of the following (very similar)
>functions will compile:
Welcome to the club! I had a very similar problem- for me, it choked on
ldc 32; /* decimal */
And I tried also to fool it- I used hex, octal, binary. didn't like any of
'em!
What I eventually did was to assign the value to a variable outside of the asm
section and then use the variable. That worked.
>rational, I'd really like to hear it! Or - if the error doesn't
>happen on your system! I have V 2.0 of the compiler, which I admit
>is one rev out, but this behavior is way out!
This alos happened to me in V2.0. When I upgraded to V2.1, the error went
away. I also tried yours on V2.1- it compiled just fine.
--
Scott Galuska
Dept. of Computer & Info. Science
Univ of Delaware
galuska@dewey.udel.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!galuska From: galuska@udel.edu (Scott Galuska) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Re: 3L C & the poison constant! Keywords: 3L C constant bug Message-ID: <35797@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 8 Nov 90 15:14:33 GMT References: <671@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: dewey.udel.edu