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On 12/ 2/10 01:29 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 01:15:10PM -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote:
>>    When assembling grub-core/kern/i386/pc/startup.S, gas on some platforms
>> chokes on this line:
>>
>>         movl    $((LOCAL(bypass_table_end) - LOCAL(bypass_table)) / 2), %ecx
>>
>>   Because on non i386-linux targets, '/' is used as a comment delimiter
>> for compatibility purposes.  This can be overridden with the --divide
>> switch.
>>
>>    Since the default for gas on these platforms is to use he division
>> operator as a comment delimiter, the "-Wa,--divide" flags need to be
>> passed on the gcc command line when assembling such files.
> Can we just use>>  1 instead?

   Sure, that works for me :).

  --S