[gccsdk] Patching as/objasm to allow expressions with record layouts

[Christopher Martin]

There appears to have been a longstanding issue with the as/objasm
assembler included in GCC 3 and 4 for RISC OS. In short, many
expressions that included symbols defined in record layouts could not be
evaluated.

I have attached a ZIP archive containing a tiny file, <test.s>, that
demonstrates the problem; assembly fails at line 19.

I have also included a diff file that shows my single-line addition to
<objasm/storage.c> that resolves the problem. The patch applies to the
online sources in <gccsdk-riscos-tools-src-4.1.1-rel1b.zip>.

I hope this helps. Of course, it will make no difference to GCC C/C++
compilations. But it does matter for some libraries of hand-crafted
assembly functions.
-- 
Regards, Chris.

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--- downloaded.objasm.c.storage
+++ patched.objasm.c.storage
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ c_alloc (Symbol * sym)
       sym->type |= SYMBOL_ABSOLUTE | SYMBOL_DEFINED;
       sym->area.ptr = NULL;
       sym->value = storageValue ();
+      sym->value.Tag.t = ValueInt;
     }
   exprBuild ();
   value = exprEval (ValueInt);

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