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

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

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

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, matt%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, he%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/20924 (vax assembler checking for byte offsets causes 
build error)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:11:43 -0500

 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