Error: Illegal operands: There are only 32 single precision f registers; [0-31]

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:25:39PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:30:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 06:27:47PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:22:25PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 01:33:12PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:37:21PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 03:00:05PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > > > > A number of ports are failing on sparc64 with the following error:
> > > > > > > Error: Illegal operands: There are only 32 single precision f registers; [0-31]
> > > ..
> > > > > > The patch at:
> > > > > > http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/opcodes/sparc-opc.c.diff?r1=1.9&r2=1.10&cvsroot=src
> > > > > > fixes these and doesn't break world. Binutils 2.15 were branched with
> > > > > > rev. 1.9 of sparc-opc.c so I think it's fairly safe to import rev. 1.10
> > > > > > onto the vendor branch in FreeBSD.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any progress in getting this fixed in FreeBSD?
> > > > No, no reply or reaction from David so far.
> > > 
> > > I didn't see this until now (no PR filed :-( ).  I just merged the FSF
> > > mainline fix into the FSF 2.15 repo.  I've created a patch to test that
> > > updates src/contrib/binutils to the top of the FSF 2.15 tree.
> > 
> > Can we get the patch referenced above committed to FreeBSD?  As you
> > know, the binutils update you sent me was broken, but applying only
> > the redhat patch fixed the problem, and I still have it in my sparc64
> > source trees so that packages can be built.
> 
> I never heard that the Red Hat version of the patch fixed your problems.

OK, I guess you missed that.

> I need to investigate the differences as the patch I sent you is what is
> in the real binutils CVS and what will get committed to FreeBSD soon.

I think it was extra stuff in the binutils patch that broke things.
e.g. default elf branding was broken, and it also broke new ports.

Kris
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