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Re: gas (2.9.1.0.23) on Linux2.2.10 and 3DNow !?
- To: mpuetz@unm.edu
- Subject: Re: gas (2.9.1.0.23) on Linux2.2.10 and 3DNow !?
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:44:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
>
> 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.