Re: Problem building httpd

[Ewald Wasscher <ewald.wasscher@pobox.com>]

Robin Miyagi wrote:

 >On Saturday 17 August 2002 09:48, Ewald Wasscher wrote:
 >
 >
 >>Hello all,
 >>
 >>I just anxiosly tried to build httpd from the new 0.17 release with cgi
 >>support enabled. Unfortunately it fails:
 >>
 >>bash-2.05a$ make httpd
 >>nasm -w+orphan-labels -w+macro-params -i../inc/ -f bin -D__LINUX__
 >>-D__KERNEL__=24 -D__SYSCALL__=__S_KERNEL__ -D__OPTIMIZE__=__O_SIZE__
 >>-D__ELF__ -D__ELF_MACROS__ httpd.asm
 >>httpd.asm:282: short jump is out of range
 >>make: *** [httpd] Error 1
 >>
 >>As I know next to nothing about assembler I wonder how one should fix
 >>that (replace jb with jmp?)
 >>
 >>Ewald Wasscher
 >>
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 >
 >For which assembler was this source code written for.
 >
For nasm 0.98.

 >
 >The problem here is that the jump is more than 128 before, or 127 
after the
 >current instruction pointer (the jump displacement is represented by a 
signed
 >one byte integer -- -128 to 127).  This should be replaced by a long 
jump,
 >which uses the machine integer/pointer size (4 bytes) to store the
 >displacement.
 >
Hah, I guessed so (I do remeber a little: I once bought a book on
assembler in the days that a 80286@12mhz was a very fast pc)

 > Please send me a copy of the assembler source code.
 >
 >
 >

You got it in private mail, it's httpd.asm from the asmutils 0.17 release.

Ewald