From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23440 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2005 15:38:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 23413 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2005 15:38:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Apr 2005 15:38:50 -0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DNBr9-00029i-00; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:09:00 -0000 To: Billy Cc: eCos discussion Message-ID: <20050417153843.GU21136@lunn.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Billy , eCos discussion References: <42627DC6.8070006@dadadada.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42627DC6.8070006@dadadada.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [ECOS] variable length automatic arrays. X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:16:22AM -0400, Billy wrote: > Short question: > > Does eCos allocate dynamically sized arrays? > > Longer version: > > I'm worried about dynamic arrays under arm-elf-gcc 3.3.4. > > Looks like our application code, at least, is being adversely > affected by this bug: > > "gcc-3.3: Miscompiles automatic dynamic arrays" > http://lists.debian.org/debian-gcc/2004/07/msg00135.html > > So we're going through our app hunting these down. Upgrading > the compiler to 3.4 might fix it, but new parser fussiness > appears to be making that a more painful option than bughunting. > > Does eCos code rely on this gcc feature? Do we have > to audit eCos code for varlength automatic arrays > or just our app code? eCos should not be using this feature. Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss