Problem with gas 2.9.5 in etherboot 4.6.8

[Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@dot.at>]

While compiling etherboot32 in version 4.6.8 I got following error
on Linux RedHat 6.2 (egcs-2.91.66, as 2.9.5)


gcc -E -DMOTD -DIMAGE_MENU -DBACKOFF_LIMIT=7 -DASK_BOOT=3
-DANS_DEFAULT=ANS_NETWORK -O2 -g -fstrength-reduce -fomit-frame-pointer
-m386 -malign-jumps=1 -malign-loops=1 -malign-functions=1 -Wall -W
-Wno-format -Wno-unused -DVERSION=\"4.6.8\" -DRELOC=0x98000  start32.S |
as  -o bin32/start32.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:323: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `ljmp'
make: *** [bin32/start32.o] Error 1

The problem seem to be the `*' in the LJMPI() macro.
The problem is in the xstart routine. As I saw in the other
parts of the code and the the code 4.6.2, I think, the `*' has
to be removed. In 4.6.2 there was no distinguish between GAS291 and
GAS295 on this line in xstart:



	ADDR32 ljmp	_execaddr-_start


In 4.6.8 this line:

	ADDR32	LJMPI(_execaddr-_start)

with the difference:

#ifdef	GAS291
#define DATA32 data32;
#define ADDR32 addr32;
#define	LJMPI(x)	ljmp	x
#else
#define DATA32 data32
#define ADDR32 addr32
#define	LJMPI(x)	ljmp	*x
#endif

Whatfor the `*' here ?

With friendly regards

	Christoph P.

PS: Without `*' the code builds, but I have not tested it !



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