Re: toolchain/20924 (vax assembler checking for byte offsets causes build error)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/20924; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/20924 (vax assembler checking for byte offsets causes
 build error)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:46:52 +0000

 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:20:04AM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >  This is -current with the workaround removed:
  >  
  >  ../../../../arch/vax/vax/intvec.S:244: Error: value of -721 too large for 
field of 1 bytes at 720
 
 Matt says it isn't a bug for the assembler to do this, so I guess the
 way forward is to remove the entry from src/doc/HACKS and close the
 PR. Anyone object?
 
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 David A. Holland
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