From: Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gas-971208 mips64orion-rtems internal error
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 09:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222112434.23375I-100000@vespucci.advicom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199712221719.MAA21659@subrogation.cygnus.com>
On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> generates this error message:
>
> p1.s: Assembler messages:
> p1.s:23: Internal error!
> Assertion failure in macro_build at ../../src/gas/config/tc-mips.c line
> 2365.
> Please report this bug.
>
> Interesting. Reporting the error in this manner is clearly a bug in
> gas.
>
> However, as far as I can tell, the input is not valid for the 4650.
> The 4650 has only single precision floating point, which means that it
> can not support the s.d instruction for a floating point register. It
> doesn't make any sense.
>
> So I think there must be a compiler bug here as well.
>
> I'll fix the bug in the assembler to report the error in a more
> coherent fashion.
Thanks. This certainly turned out to be more interesting than I
expected. :)
Should I just report this to the egcs list then along with the original
offensive C program Is there something I can do to help make this one
easier to find? It seems pretty weird.
--joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-22 9:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-20 11:00 Joel Sherrill
1997-12-22 9:19 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1997-12-22 9:27 ` Joel Sherrill [this message]
1997-12-22 9:30 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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