>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Nelson <dnelson@stripped> writes:
Dan> 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
>> !
Dan> According to the gas info page, the only valid comments should be
Dan> /* */ c-style comments and
Dan> # shell-script-style comments
Dan> FreeBSD does not use "/" as a comment because then lines like this:
Dan> movw $(SCR_ROW-1)*SCR_COL/2, %cx # Words to move
Dan> would fail because the division symbol would be interpreted as a
Dan> comment :)
Dan> -Dan Nelson
Dan> dnelson@stripped
Hi!
--enable-assembler should work in MySQL 3.22.24 and above.
Regards,
Monty
