Re: ionice kills vanilla 2.6.0-test9 was [Re: [PATCH] cfq + io priorities (fwd)]

[Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>]

Hi Linus,

> You can trivially see if with a simple assembly file like
>
> 	start:
> 		.long 1,2,3,a
> 	a=(.-start)/4
>
> where 2.13.90 as shipped by SuSE will get it right (and generate a
> list of 1,2,3,4), while 2.14.90 from Fedora core will generate
> 1,2,3,16.

It appears that the 2.14.90.0.6 release of binutils used with the
Fedora code needs the patch below applied.  This patch has been
committed to the 2_14 branch and the mainline binutils sources.

Cheers
        Nick Clifton
        Binutils Maintainer

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gas/ChangeLog
2003-04-30  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>

	* app.c (do_scrub_chars): Revert 2003-04-23 and 2003-04-22 changes.

Index: gas/app.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /repositories/repositories/sourceware/src/gas/app.c,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -c -3 -p -r1.23 app.c
*** gas/app.c	23 Apr 2003 17:51:41 -0000	1.23
--- gas/app.c	26 Nov 2003 20:02:32 -0000
*************** do_scrub_chars (get, tostart, tolen)
*** 1294,1300 ****
  	    }
  	  else if (state == 1)
  	    {
- 	      if (IS_SYMBOL_COMPONENT (ch))
  		state = 2;	/* Ditto.  */
  	    }
  	  else if (state == 9)
--- 1294,1299 ----