Re: Need --divide flag for assembly of startup.S on some platforms

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 03:47:53PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> So, is it better to require binutils 2.17, or to accept the maintenance
> burden of avoiding the / operator in i386 assembly?  My instinct remains
> the latter, I think - I have no idea what version of binutils is in
> place on our various supported platforms, and I'm not even sure how to
> go about finding out, so raising it is a bit scary for me.  I'm used to
> platforms that stay pretty current on the GNU toolchain, but I know not
> all platforms are like that.

I've committed a change switching to >> following discussion on IRC
(summary: I grepped all our .S files and this was the only occurrence of
a division operator).

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden