Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] writes:

Andreas Schwab writes:

quoted

Is your assembler older than 4 years?

No, well, at least not unless Debian sid is seriously behind the
times.  It's version 2.17 from the Debian binutils 2.17-3 package.

Probably some debian patches messed it up.  I'd suggest reporting that
to them.  FWIW, the unmodified assembler gives this error when operating
in 32bit mode:

$ echo 'sldi 0,0,10' | as
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `rldicr'

But just addding -many (which gcc always passes) will let the assembler
accept this.

Andreas.

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