[PATCH] Fix building on x86_64 with binutils 2.41

Simon Horman horms at kernel.org
Fri Feb 2 00:42:14 PST 2024


On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 04:14:31AM -0600, Michel Lind via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Michel Lind <salimma at fedoraproject.org>
> 
> Newer versions of the GNU assembler (observed with binutils 2.41) will
> complain about the ".arch i386" in files assembled with "as --64",
> with the message "Error: 64bit mode not supported on 'i386'".
> 
> Fix by moving ".arch i386" below the relevant ".code32" directive, so
> that the assembler is no longer expecting 64-bit instructions to be used
> by the time that the ".arch i386" directive is encountered.
> 
> Based on similar iPXE fix:
> https://github.com/ipxe/ipxe/commit/6ca597eee
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michel Lind <michel at michel-slm.name>

Thanks Michael,

applied.

- Fix building on x86_64 with binutils 2.41
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git/commit/?id=328de8e00e29



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