Re: [PATCH] xen: always consider '/' as a division in assembly

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 03:44:33PM +0000, Bertrand Marquis wrote:
> Hi Roger,
> 
> > On 10 Feb 2026, at 16:11, Roger Pau Monne <roger.pau@citrix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > GNU assembler will consider '/' as the start of comment marker on some
> > platforms.  This is incorrect with Xen's usage, which does use '/' in
> > assembly files as a mathematical operator.
> > 
> > The behavior of the assembler can be altered by passing the --divide
> > option; unconditionally pass this option when available to force the
> > expected behavior.
> 
> This is solving the issue and I can build for arm with what and further
> for x86 on mac os but it fails on check-endbr.sh:
> 
> /bin/sh ../tools/check-endbr.sh xen-syms
> stat: illegal option -- c

Yeah, I know.  I've fixed the stat issue, but there's a further one
about an illegal bit sequence in grep.  I'm looking into that.

Thanks, Roger.