Re: In stage1 bootstrap assembler claims Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `/'

On 4/9/26 14:41, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026, 19:13 Dennis Clarke via Gcc-help, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Dear GCC folks et. al :

...

>> centauri# cat alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/libgcc/qrnnd.vis
>>           .hidden ../../../gcc-8.5.0/libgcc/config/alpha/qrnnd.S
>>           .hidden __udiv_qrnnd
>> centauri#
>>
>> There are no weird bytes in there anywhere. Just plain ASCII :
>>
>> centauri# hdump -Ax -t x1 -v alpha-unknown-openbsd7.8/libgcc/qrnnd.vis
>>        0:  09 2e 68 69 64 64 65 6e 20 2e 2e 2f 2e 2e 2f 2e
>>       10:  2e 2f 67 63 63 2d 38 2e 35 2e 30 2f 6c 69 62 67
>>       20:  63 63 2f 63 6f 6e 66 69 67 2f 61 6c 70 68 61 2f
>>       30:  71 72 6e 6e 64 2e 53 0a 09 2e 68 69 64 64 65 6e
>>       40:  20 5f 5f 75 64 69 76 5f 71 72 6e 6e 64 0a
>>       4e:
>> centauri#
>>
>> So where is the "Error: junk at end of line" ?
>>
> 
> The slash is what it considers junk. It says so in the error message.
> 
> 

Yes ... and I SEE THAT. So what is wrong here? Why does the bootstrap
just fail? Is this the end of the line and no way forwards or around or
what? There has to be a path forwards somewhere in this mess.


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