Binutils 2.10 error

[Josh Cogliati]

as --version
GNU assembler 2.10
Copyright 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `i586-pc-linux-gnu'.

No patches applied

Debian Gnu/Linux version 2.2

Compiled with gcc 2.95.2

This error is that some *filenames* produce errors:
ekira:~/cs/330/lab5$ cat nil.s
ekira:~/cs/330/lab5$ cat fsm.s
ekira:~/cs/330/lab5$ cat test.s
ekira:~/cs/330/lab5$ as --gstabs nil.s
nil.s: Assembler messages:
nil.s:0: Error: local label "0" (instance number 0 of a dollar label) is not 
defined
ekira:~/cs/330/lab5$ as --gstabs fsm.s
fsm.s: Assembler messages:
fsm.s:0: Error: local label "0" (instance number 0 of a dollar label) is not 
defined
ekira:~/cs/330/lab5$ as --gstabs test.s

Notice how nil.s and fsm.s produce errors, but test.s does not.
Here is the directory:
lrwxrwxrwx    1 jjc      jjc             6 Nov  5 22:58 fsm.s -> test.s
lrwxrwxrwx    1 jjc      jjc             6 Nov  5 22:58 nil.s -> test.s
-rw-r--r--    1 jjc      jjc             0 Nov  5 22:51 test.s
As you can see nil and test are the EXACT same file, however nil.s produces
an error.  It seems to be that the gstabs option is unable to deal with 
three letter filenames.  If this is the case than the bug should either be
fixed, or it should produce a more helpful message than local label undefined.


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Josh Cogliati
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