From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16390 invoked by alias); 3 Feb 2011 08:39:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 16287 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Feb 2011 08:39:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from thsbbfxrt01p.thalesgroup.com (HELO thsbbfxrt01p.thalesgroup.com) (192.54.144.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:39:21 +0000 Received: from thsbbfxrt01p.thalesgroup.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 8417559A485; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 09:39:18 +0100 (CET) From: VAUGHAN Jay To: Ian Lance Taylor CC: "gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org" , "diggskevin38@gmail.com" Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:39:00 -0000 Subject: Re: hail marry (booting PowerMac 8600) Message-ID: <30863_1296722358_4D4A69B6_30863_16193_1_4D4A69B5.8090908@thalesgroup.com> References: In-Reply-To: Reply-To: VAUGHAN Jay x-pmwin-version: 3.1.0.0, Antivirus-Engine: 3.15.0, Antivirus-Data: 4.61E Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-02/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 On 02/03/2011 02:58 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > kevin diggs writes: > > Uh ... What does your gut tell you about whether this could be a > > compiler bug? > My gut tells me that it is very unlikely. However, compiler bugs have > been known to happen. I just want to encourage you guys to continue this discussion until some so= rt of=20 meaningful conclusion can be made about what is going on with the differenc= es;- such=20 circumstances are precisely what some of us lurkers are here for. My gut feeling is that the narrowing-down process is going to lead to such = a conclusion,=20 eventually, and that this will be a Eureka! moment for a few of us working = on PPC-related=20 work with gcc .. I can't contribute much else, but I am definitely watching= this thread=20 with interest and from my end I'll be looking at mesh.c today .. (Not worth setting up gdb-kernel for this, to find out where exactly the ha= ng is=20 occurring? Doesn't linux-ppc have a sysreq-like inline debugger, somewhere= ?) --=20 ; Thales Austria GmbH Jay Vaughan, Scheydgasse 41 Software Developer 1210 Vienna AUSTRIA =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D------------------= --