From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971222112434.23375I-100000@vespucci.advicom.net>
References: <199712221719.MAA21659@subrogation.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997/msg00055.html

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