On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:49:12AM -0500, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
> 'allo,
> 
>     I was trying to compile GNUstep on my Ultra2/NetBSD 2.0RC4 system
> and ran into compilation problems with a dependency.  The dependency is
> devel/ffcall and here is the error message that I get:
> 
> avcall-sparc64.s: Assembler messages:
> avcall-sparc64.s:26: Error: Illegal operands
> avcall-sparc64.s:32: Error: Illegal operands
> avcall-sparc64.s:38: Error: Illegal operands
> avcall-sparc64.s:44: Error: Illegal operands
> avcall-sparc64.s:50: Error: Illegal operands
> .
> .
> .
> avcall-sparc64.s:218: Error: Illegal operands
> 
> This is in the
> 
>    devel/ffcall/work/ffcall-1.0/avcall/avcall-sparc64.s
> 
> file which is a SPARC assembly language file.  I have no clue about
> assembly language, but all the lines referenced in the error messages
> are of the form:
> 
>     ld 72(%i0),%f1
> 
>      or
> 
>     ldd 192(%i0),%f30
> 
>  The %i0 remains the same in all the messages as far as I can tell,
> and the %f changes.
> 

I vaguely remember that I sent patches for this somewhere.
Can't find them, though.
Indeed those are incorrect asm statements. You can easily fix it
by changing
	ld x(r),f 
to
	ld [r+x],f
 
If you still have the problem after that then open PR.

	Andrey