GAS fails on GCC output

[Jan Beulich]

Hello,

while investigating the debug info options provided by gcc I came to find that 
gas does not accept output generated by gcc in a specific case when using 
-gcoff on the gcc command line. C source and assembly output are attached. The 
resulting messages are

coffsym.s: Assembler messages:
coffsym.s:38: Fatal error: C_EFCN symbol out of scope

and the problem is appearantly related to the fact that

        .def    _localfunc;     .scl    2;      .type   32;     .endef

is following the actual declaration of _localfunc, which (in the C source) is 
being declared, referenced, and defined in this order. If the reference occures 
after the definition, the problem does not occur.

Possbly not fully knowing all apsects of COFF symbols I cannot reliably 
determine whether the compiler emits incorrect assembly directives, or whether 
the assembler is at fault, but even if what the compiler emits is not correct 
(in which case a bug report would need to be filed against it), the error 
message generated is more than cryptic and would instead be requested to report 
the original problem rather than a leter consequence of it.

The assembler has been built from binutils 2.11.2 on CygWin 1.3.3-2 running on 
Win2000.

Thank you so much,

coffsym.s
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coffsym.c
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