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unsupported relocation type with mtspr and mfspr

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Mon Dec 31 12:19:00 GMT 2001 
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 11:29:56 -0800
> From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> Cc: binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com
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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
> 
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:51:37AM -0800, balasankaran@starcomtec.com wrote:
> > i,
> > I am using the following assembler.
> > ----------------------------------------
> > <vkit/ppc/405/bin/ppc_405-as -mregnames -m405 --version
> > GNU assembler 2.10.91
> > Copyright 2001 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 `powerpc-hardhat-linux'.
> > -------------------------------------------
> > 
> > The assembler reports the following error for the assembly lines
> > mentioned below. Any suggestions to overcome the problem ?
> > Thanks a lot.
> > -Bala

I think you probably wanted to write

	mtspr 1,11

The ppc assembler doesn't know about the 'SR1' names.  Normally you'd
use the appropriate simplified mnemonic instead:
	mtxer 11
or
	mtxer %r11
or, with the -mregnames switch to gas,
	mtxer r11

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>
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