Re: problems with hint @pause in the assembler

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:32:27 -0700, Arun Sharma <address@hidden> said:

  Arun> The assembler (2.13.90.0.18 20030206) seems to have problems
  Arun> dealing with the instruction

  Arun> (qp) hint @pause

  Arun> $ cat foo.s .text .type _start,@function _start: (p7) hint
  Arun> @pause $ as foo.s foo.s: Assembler messages: foo.s:4: Error:
  Arun> Unknown opcode address@hidden' foo.s:4: Error: qualifying
  Arun> predicate not followed by instruction

  Arun> However, if I use

  Arun>         hint @pause # without a qualifying predicate

  Arun> or

  Arun> (qp) hint 0

  Arun> things are ok.

Umpf, that's a weird one.  I don't see anything obvious that's wrong.
Perhaps there is a bug in ia64-gen.c, which I know very little about.

        --david