From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from www.linux.org.uk (parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk [195.92.249.252]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCFD4869 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 15:27:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from willy by www.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 3.33 #5) id 18n4b6-00046m-00; Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:27:48 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:27:48 +0000 From: Matthew Wilcox To: LaMont Jones Cc: Matthew Wilcox , binutils@sources.redhat.com, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] second sr0 patch Message-ID: <20030223222748.F2938@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20030223204842.E2938@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030223222035.26E3812133@security.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030223222035.26E3812133@security.hp.com>; from lamont@hp.com on Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 03:20:35PM -0700 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 03:20:35PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote: > In article <20030223204842.E2938@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> you wrote: > > +++ gas/config/tc-hppa.c 23 Feb 2003 19:21:09 -0000 > > @@ -1794,7 +1794,7 @@ pa_ip (str) > > if (!pa_parse_number (&s, 0)) > > break; > > num = pa_number; > > - CHECK_FIELD (num, 3, 0, 1); > > + CHECK_FIELD (num, 3, 1, 1); > I don't think this is a good plan. Emit a warning, sure, but there is > a large collection of legacy PARISC assembly code out there that has > this perfectly legal, and hp-ux assembler-accepted-from-day-0 construct. OK, patch withdrawn. It's misleading to use this construct, but if people have been doing it for fifteen years then it's just not reasonable to not support it now. The other patch still stands; we're not using sr0 so it's misleading to pretend that we are. -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk