[patch] Re: Another weird sparc solaris 2.8 compiler error

Wed Jan 31 23:09:00 GMT 2001

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> 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?

Can you guys try this patch?
cheers
 [ bryce ]