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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, stable@kernel.org,
	dsahern@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Cc: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit system
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:07:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E284EAB.1020906@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-08a4a43fc407d780bdde36d98f89c0dbb2a6be6b@git.kernel.org>

On 07/21/2011 08:36 AM, tip-bot for David Ahern wrote:
> Commit-ID:  08a4a43fc407d780bdde36d98f89c0dbb2a6be6b
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/08a4a43fc407d780bdde36d98f89c0dbb2a6be6b
> Author:     David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 15:38:24 -0600
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CommitDate: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:42:30 +0200
> 
> perf tools, x86: Fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit system
> 
> Builds for 32-bit perf binaries on a 64-bit host currently fail
> with this error:
> 
>  [...]
>  bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S: Assembler messages:
>  bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:29: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
>  bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:34: Error: invalid instruction suffix for `movs'
>  bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:50: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
>  bench/../../../arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S:61: Error: bad register name `%rdi'
>  ...
> 
> The problem is the detection of the host arch without considering passed in
> flags. This change fixes 32-bit builds via:
> 
> make EXTRA_CFLAGS=-m32
> 
> and 64-bit builds still reference the memcpy_64.S.
> 

But this is the wrong way to build 32-bit code on 64-bit platforms.
make ARCH=i386 is the supported way.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-21 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-11 21:38 [PATCH] perf tools, x86: fix 32-bit compile on 64-bit system David Ahern
2011-07-15 15:27 ` David Ahern
2011-07-15 15:32   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2011-07-15 15:38   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-21 14:30 ` David Ahern
2011-07-21 15:36 ` [tip:perf/urgent] perf tools, x86: Fix " tip-bot for David Ahern
2011-07-21 16:07   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-07-21 16:24     ` David Ahern
2011-07-21 18:03       ` H. Peter Anvin

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