[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.10-pre2 is out

[Aaron McSorley]

I dont see pre3 it on kernel.org

On Tue, 18 May 2004, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Aaron McSorley wrote:
> > The menu wont compile for me, the version in 2.09 does compile.
> > 
> > ~/syslinux-2.10-pre2/menu$ gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)
> > 
> > ~/syslinux-2.10-pre2/menu$ make
> > gcc -m32 -funsigned-char -g -W -Wall -march=i386 -falign-functions=0 -falign-jumps=0 -falign-loops=0 -Os -MMD -S -o biosio.s biosio.c
> > biosio.c: In function `scrollup':
> > biosio.c:141: error: invalid lvalue in asm statement
> > make: *** [biosio.s] Error 1
> > 
> 
> Yes, this one is just a plain bug (it uses an rvalue with a + modifier 
> which is illegal.)
> 
> There also seems to be some problems with the constraints.  These seem 
> to be gcc bugs, mostly, I have in fact had it try to generate x86-64 
> specific registers like %dil in 32-bit mode!
> 
> It seems that "r" is broken for 8-bit registers and newer gccs want 
> either "q" or "Q".  Since older gcc's don't support them one need to use 
> something like "abcd".
> 
> Anyway, I've release syslinux-2.10-pre3 which should fix these problems.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 

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