In the last episode (Jul 07), Martin Nilsson said:
> I've managed to compile mysql 3.22.23b with --enable-assembler on
> FreeBSD-3.2-STABLE and FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT as of yesterday if I
> change all comment characters in strings/strings.s and
> strings/longlong2str-x86.s from / to #, I don't know if this is
> a valid syntax on other platforms as well but it works here.
>
> It seems that the FBSD assembler gets confused on lines with a command
> without arguments but with a comment started by / as the lines below:
> std / Work downward
> movsb / One byte a time because overlap
> !
According to the gas info page, the only valid comments should be
/* */ c-style comments and
# shell-script-style comments
FreeBSD does not use "/" as a comment because then lines like this:
movw $(SCR_ROW-1)*SCR_COL/2, %cx # Words to move
would fail because the division symbol would be interpreted as a
comment :)
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@stripped
