[Bug target/16640] In function `__floattidf':, libgcc2.c:1292: internal compiler error: in expand_shift, at expmed.c:2111

["john dot spelis at 3dlabs dot com" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>]

------- Additional Comments From john dot spelis at 3dlabs dot com  2004-07-20 17:22 -------
Andrew, I apologise, i'm new to Bugzilla and did not read your comment
until posting my own. You guy's are hero's and Geniuses.
Keep up the magnificent work. 
Best Regards.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Actually that means it is fixed and a bug in 3.0.x which is known and I
thought was documented.
> And it is:
> From <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html>:
> GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of the
GNU compiler (especially 
> GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the miscompilation of the stage1 compiler
and the subsequent 
> failure of the bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an
intermediary stage, i.e. to 
> bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then use it to bootstrap
the final compiler.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Actually that means it is fixed and a bug in 3.0.x which is known and I
thought was documented.
> And it is:
> From <http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html>:
> GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 trigger code generation bugs in earlier versions of the
GNU compiler (especially 
> GCC 3.0.x versions), which lead to the miscompilation of the stage1 compiler
and the subsequent 
> failure of the bootstrap process. A workaround is to use GCC 3.2.3 as an
intermediary stage, i.e. to 
> bootstrap that compiler with the base compiler and then use it to bootstrap
the final compiler.



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