Subject: Re: linux-next: arm tree build failure

From: Catalin Marinas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:23:26 +0000

On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:27 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Today's linux-next build (arm versatile_defconfig and many other configs)
> failed like this:
> 
>   AS      usr/initramfs_data.o
> arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h: Assembler messages:
> arch/arm/include/asm/unwind.h:68: Error: Bad macro parameter list
[...]
> Does this require a particular binutils version?

It looks like constructs like below are only supported by newer
binutils:

	.macro	unwind	instr:vararg
	\instr
	.endm

I'll change it to classic C macros and re-post on the ARM kernel list.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin