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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:50:22 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?
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On 3.3.2011 09:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> kbuild people: is there a way to test for a specific assembler version
>> in Kbuild (and error out the build for it?)
> 
> Could we add a testcase for one of the more egregious breakages and bail out then? 
> That way we don't have to get the version information right - broken prereleases 
> would be covered as well.
> 
> For example this sequence:
> 
> .irp idx,0,1,2
> .if 0 > \idx
> .endif
> .endr
>
> Will break on 2.16, right? It builds fine on 2.20.

This seems to work for me with the binutils version from sles10 (even
with a vanilla build of binutils):
$ as -v <<EOF; echo $?
> .irp idx,0,1,2
> .if 0 > \idx
> .endif
> .endr
> EOF
GNU assembler version 2.16.91.0.5 (i586-suse-linux) using BFD version
2.16.91.0.5 20051219
0
$

So either the bug is fixed in that version already or you picked a wrong
example (or I did not understand what should fail here). But don't get
me wrong, I'm all for checking for actual bugs instead of innocent
version strings.

Michal
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