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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@ellerman.id.au>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	markus@trippelsdorf.de, amodra@gmail.com
Subject: Re: powerpc: cmp -> cmpd for 64-bit
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:25:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161214042546.GQ30845@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACPK8Xf3X=bEj-EUXezYYEKNJwkqW4O0RiM2FcCtH4cNNxA-qw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:01:50PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> >> With older binutils this is silently accepted as if this was "cmpw",
> >> while often "cmpd" is wanted.  With newer binutils GAS will complain
> >> about this for 64-bit code.  For 32-bit code it still silently assumes
> >> "cmpw" is what is meant.

> This one made it into 4.9-rc3 as "powerpc: Convert cmp to cmpd in idle
> enter sequence". We need it to build the 4.4 kernel with GCC 6.2, so
> my OpenPower firmware builds are failing.

The GCC version does not matter; the binutils version does, however.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-14  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06 13:42 [PATCH] powerpc: cmp -> cmpd for 64-bit Segher Boessenkool
2016-10-12  3:05 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-10-12 13:26   ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-10-12 17:00     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2016-10-26 10:21 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-12-14  3:31   ` Joel Stanley
2016-12-14  4:25     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2016-12-14 11:02     ` Greg KH

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