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On 03/14/2011 08:56 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> writes:
> 
>> No - $(AS) isn't being used to translate .S files, $(CC) is being used
>> instead. That's why I pointed at the necessary -B option (so that
>> the compiler would be able to locate the wrapper H.J. suggested).
> 
> You could also just put a -Wa option in your $(CC).  That seems simpler
> than a -B option.
> 
> (I don't really care about this issue one way or another.)
> 

-Wa is definitely the sane way to do it.  The -B thing came in if you
have to run a patched version of as, which is extremely painful.

	-hpa

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