GMP 5.0.5 build fails with tcc due to x86_64 asm (unknown register...)

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2012-06-19 15:11:55 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> I am not sure we can win this race, where ever worse compilers pop up.
> If people play with such a compiler, isn't reasonable to assume they can
> interpret errors such as the ones above?  Would they be helped by an
> error message from GMP's configure:
> 
>  "Sorry, assembler invoked by 'mce' cannot assembly the any instruction
>   and doesn't recognise any register names"
> 
> (Here 'mce' is the mis-compiles-everything compiler.)

I completely disagree: until now, tcc is fine for compiling C.
C, not assembler!

In GMP's "./configure --help" output:

  CC          C compiler command

So, CC is a command to compile C code. For the assembler, it may be
another command.

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