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Subject: Problems with GAS 68k

Host: i386-sysv3
Version: 1.38

Question 1:
Has anybody managed to build gcc/gas for a 68k?  When I try the
compilier generates assembler identical to a native 68020 cc but the
gas-1.38 a68 seems to expect a totally different syntax. There are at
least 3 fundimental incompatabilities
i) it assumes the size specifier to be part of the opcode. ie addw rather than
add.w ii) it assumes pseudo-ops start with a dot. ie .text rather than text.
iii) if a68 is built with REGISTER_PREFIX=% the local labels of the form L%n
are screwed up. Surely somebody must have built gcc/gas on a 68k.
This seems so fundimental that I assume that it isn't a bug,
what am I doing wrong?

Question 2:
Has anybody re-written gas to use the bfd-2.0 libraries yet?

Question 3:
Since gas doesn't seem to provide a listing option are there any hidden
methods for testing it other than 'suck and see'?

I have been able to build a386 on my i386-sysv3 host and this accepts the
output of the native 386 cc without problem, although it does generate a
a.out-i386 binary rather than the coff-i386 I would have expected
(according to gnu objdump).

Thanks in advance for your time and trouble,


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