Bug 27841 – gens-2.12 fails to compile with nasm-0.98.37

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Brandy Westcott (RETIRED) 2003-09-03 00:19:10 UTC]

gens-2.12 compiles fine using nasm-0.98.36 but does not with nasm-0.98.37. 
 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge nasm-0.98.37 
2. emerge gens 
 
Actual Results:  
nasm -D__GCC2 -f elf -O3 vdp_rend.asm -ovdp_rend.o 
nasm -D__GCC2 -f elf -O3 z80.asm -oz80.o 
vdp_rend.asm:1748: error: short jump is out of range 
vdp_rend.asm:1882: error: short jump is out of range 
..... 
vdp_rend.asm:2233: error: short jump is out of range 
vdp_rend.asm:2260: error: phase error detected at end of assembly. 
make: *** [vdp_rend.o] Error 1 
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... 
 
!!! ERROR: app-emulation/gens-2.12 failed. 
!!! Function games_src_compile, Line 110, Exitcode 2 
!!! emake failed 
 

Expected Results:  
gens to compile ok 

Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r6) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz 
ccache version 2.2 [enabled] 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ 
/usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/afs/C /etc/afs/afsws /etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs ccache" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm jpeg gnome libg++ 
mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms 
xv zlib gtkhtml gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java X sdl tcpd pam 
libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl 3dfx cdr doc dvd 
sse tcltk tetex -3dnow"

[Comment 1 Brandy Westcott (RETIRED) 2003-09-03 00:27:06 UTC]

It looks like it's the -O3 flag causing the error in this particular case. 
Running nasm manually: 
 
	# cd /var/tmp/portage/gens-2.12/work/gens_linux/gens 
	# nasm -D__GCC2 -f elf -O3 vdp_rend.asm -ovdp_rend.o 
	vdp_rend.asm:1748: error: short jump is out of range  
	vdp_rend.asm:1882: error: short jump is out of range  
	.....  
	vdp_rend.asm:2233: error: short jump is out of range  
	vdp_rend.asm:2260: error: phase error detected at end of assembly. 
	 
	# nasm -D__GCC2 -f elf -O2 vdp_rend.asm -ovdp_rend.o 
	vdp_rend.asm:1748: error: short jump is out of range  
	vdp_rend.asm:1882: error: short jump is out of range  
	.....  
	vdp_rend.asm:2233: error: short jump is out of range  
	vdp_rend.asm:2260: error: phase error detected at end of assembly. 
 
	# nasm -D__GCC2 -f elf -O1 vdp_rend.asm -ovdp_rend.o 
	# 
 
Note that the -O3 flag used by nasm is not set via CFLAGS. 
 

[Comment 2 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-09-05 12:03:28 UTC]

nasm-0.98.37's -f elf support is totally broken.  I've masked this version
of nasm in package.mask.  I'm going to close this bug because it's not really a 
game bug and will hopefully be resolved with the next release of nasm.

[Comment 3 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-09-05 12:04:30 UTC]

nasm's problem

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-09-19 10:53:57 UTC]

.38 fixes this

[Comment 5 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2003-09-19 11:36:15 UTC]

use nasm-0.98.38

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-09-19 11:41:52 UTC]

oh, and you need gens-2.12a which is now in cvs ;)