[Bug 1295653] Re: [4.8/4.9 Regression] Error: value of 256 too large for field of 1 bytes at 68242

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Title:
   [4.8/4.9 Regression] Error: value of 256 too large for field of 1
  bytes at 68242

Status in The GNU Compiler Collection:
  Confirmed
Status in Linaro GCC:
  New
Status in “gcc-4.8” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  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

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