In a recent bout of ‘They Changed It, Now It Sucks’, GCC 4.7 won't add interworking instructions to ARM assembly code unless you add a .type directive to the function boilerplate. Following some code from devkitARM 38 announcement:

Though the change is simple, it does effectively mean that basically all older assembly code is now b0rked, including tonc and many of the ASM functions I've written about here. I hope I can assess the damage this weekend and fix everything.

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UPDATE 2012-05-20

Had some time to work on this. When I first saw that I was going to have to do this, I though ‘Oh naw, I'm going to have to update every single ASM function I have?’ But then I noticed that I had already done so, more or less. One of the things I realized some time after the 1.4 release was that copy-pasting the standard boiler-plate code for ASM functions was stupid, so I created macros to do that instead. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I had already upgraded all tonclib functions with that macro, so all I had to do was add the single line in a single place and recompile. Fuck yeah, macros.

The only troublesome thing was that the inline ASM I used in swi_demo failed horrifically, so I just removed those.

The current status is that all the code's okay again, but the text parts still need to be updated.