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Subject: Re: FirstOne for Linux

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 09:02:45 03/29/03

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On March 29, 2003 at 11:48:25, Filip Tvrzsky wrote:
>>>The assembly code used to be in x86.s in Crafty.
>>
>>thanks.
>>I get a lot of errors when compiling it:
>>
>>$ gcc *.s
>>X86.s: Assembler messages:
>>X86.s:4: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:30: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:45: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:63: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:122: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:154: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:182: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:234: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:266: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:301: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:347: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:384: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:456: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:492: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>X86.s:516: Error: bad or irreducible absolute expression
>>
>>No clue what's wrong.
>
>Hi,
>I am neither programming nor Crafty expert though:
>I think that X86.s is not C code but assembler, so you have to compile with as,
>not gcc.
>And those error messages above are there IMO
>because on the first line of X86.s file you can see such definiton of the
>alignement constant: alignement = ALIGN. The word ALIGN is normally replaced
>during the make process (see MAKEFILE file). If you want compile only X86.s
>file, you have to substitute ALIGN on your own. I don't know which is the
>appropriate value, maybe 4 or 16?
>Filip

Hmmm, are you saying GCC can't compile assembler?
That sounds very strange to me, a compiler that can't compile?

Well, in any case I don't know how to write a makefile, so if that's what it
takes then I'm lost.

But thanks for the info, I'll stick to C++ then :)

-S.

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