Comment 3 for bug 1295653

Created attachment 32416
preprocessed source

originall reported as a gas issue:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16735

seen when building the ppl 1.1 bindings for SWI Prolog, using binutils from the 2.24 branch on arm-linux-gnueabihf with a compiler defaulting to thumb mode.

seen with current 4.8 branch and at least trunk 20140306.

$ g++ -c -g -O2 ppl_prolog_common.ii
/tmp/ccuRxr3p.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccuRxr3p.s:126688: Error: value of 256 too large for field of 1 bytes at 68242

$ g++ -marm -c -g -O2 ppl_prolog_common.ii
<succeeds>

$ as -v -march=armv7-a -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 -meabi=5 -o ppl_prolog_common.o ppl_prolog_common.s
GNU assembler version 2.24 (arm-linux-gnueabihf) using BFD version (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.24
ppl_prolog_common.s: Assembler messages:
ppl_prolog_common.s:130339: Error: value of 256 too large for field of 1 bytes at 70430