Technical gcc / assembler question.

[Matthew Gillen]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:24:16 -0400
> Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 11 July 2007 16:45:47 Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>> For reasons beyond my control, I have some code I need to compile that
>>> must use gcc 3.3.3. Corporate a version of GCC they keep on an exported
>>> system that contains all of GCC. The system I'm running on is RHEL 4.0
>>> x86_64 (EM64T Woodcrest) with GCC 4.3 installed.
>>> In any case here is the sanitized line:
>>> g++ -V 3.3.3
>>> -B<proper prefix.>
>>> -B<proper prefix>
>>> -I<prefix>/3.3.3/include
>>> -I<prefix>/include
>>> -I<prefix>/gcc-3.3.3/linux-i386-2.3/include/c++
>>> -I<prefix>/gcc-3.3.3/linux-i386-2.3/include/c++/i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>> -g -Wall -D__NO_MATH_INLINES -D__NO_STRING_INLINES -D__error_t_defined
>>> -fpic -fno-exceptions -I.
>>> -I<product>/include -fexceptions -c DefineEnums.C
>>> Changing -c to -S, and assembling the .s file, the error I get is:
>>> DefineEnums.s: Assembler messages:
>>> DefineEnums.s:136: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
>>> DefineEnums.s:140: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `push'
>>> DefineEnums.s:145: Internal error, aborting
>>> at ../../gas/config/tc-i386.c line 3500 in output_imm
>>> (I get the identical error that references the temp file for the
>>> assembler pass, but the temp file code is deleted).
>>>
>>> .LFB3253:
>>> 	.loc 95 90 0
>>> 	pushl	%ebp   Line 136
>>> .LCFI0:
>>> 	movl	%esp, %ebp
>>> .LCFI1:
>>> 	pushl	%ebx   Line 140
>>> .LCFI2:
>>> 	subl	$4, %esp
>>> .LCFI3:
>>> 	call	__i686.get_pc_thunk.bx
>>> 	addl	$_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, %ebx   Line 145
>>>
>>> I have tried a few options, such as -m32.
>> Have you tried prefixing the gcc call with 'setarch i386' ? I know this is 
>> required to build i686 kernels on x86_64 that actually work, could be you 
>> need it too.
> 
> Unfortunately setarch does not make any difference. 
> Additionally, I compiled a simple hello.C
> #include <iostream>
> int main()
> {
> 	std::cout << "Hello, world!\n";
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> With the same result.

What if you set your PATH to have the gcc-3.3.3 install (with 'as' et al)
first, then run (no need for the -V 3.3.3).  It looks like somehow it's using
the wrong version of some subprogram...

HTH,
Matt

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