Another weird sparc solaris 2.8 compiler error

Wed Jan 31 16:58:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年1月31日, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Nope, Gerald reported this recently too.Gerald, did you find a solution for
> this problem?

No, not a solution, but I tracked down the problem a bit:
 nunki[71]:~% cat x.s
 .global class
 class = dummy
 nunki[72]:~% as x.s
 as: "x.s", line 2: error: symbol "dummy" is used but not defined
> Maybe Sun's as doesn't like the class$ symbol for some reason. Can you
> try it with GNU as?

It is not a problem with the specific name as I originally thought, it's
just that this syntax per se seems to be a GNUism.
Which would be bug. Who exactly does generate this "class =" thingie? Do
we really need it? And why had that worked before?
If I just remove that "class =" line, everything assembles fine (though
I'd be quite surprised would this be an acceptable solution).
Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/