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Re: gas (2.9.1.0.23) on Linux2.2.10 and 3DNow !?


> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I wanted to try AMD's 3DNow! extensions with gas
> of binutils 2.9.1.0.23 (RedHat 6) with Linux 
> kernel 2.2.10 on my AMD K6-2.
> 
> This is the little test code I wrote to get started.
> It compiles fine with egcs 1.1.2 but produces wrong
> output :(
> 
> Do binutils 2.9.1.0.23 support 3DNow! correctly
> or am I missing something (some initialization sequence
> maybe) ? The info pages at least claim support for 3dNow!
> 
> I also looked at the assembly output from egcs
> and couldn't see anything fishy and gas doesn't complain
> either.
> 

You need to tell us where the problem is. gas misassembles
AMD code. But I don't have AMD to test it. We rely on AMD
users to tell us what gas should generate.


H.J.

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