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

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Feb 13,  8:50pm, dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost (David Holland) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: toolchain/20924 (vax assembler checking for byte offsets caus

| 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?

I agree, but I also think that the error message could be better.

christos