Re: fortran/6138: Incorrect access of integer*1 variables on PA

["John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>]

The following reply was made to PR fortran/6138; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
To: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene)
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: fortran/6138: Incorrect access of integer*1 variables on PA
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 15:24:27 -0500 (EST)

 > Unfortunately, after half a day of fiddling, I'm not sure if the reason
 > this fails on HPPA is the same as the reason it fails on POWERPC.
 
 On the PA, I am fairly certain the problem is in the "conversion" from
 INTEGER*2 to INTEGER*1.
 
 > On the latter, even the following is incorrect:
 > 
 >       INTEGER*1 I
 >       I = -9
 >       PRINT*,I
 >       END
 > 
 > which prints 247 ;-)
 
 OK under hppa-linux.  What's the assembly code look like?  The problems
 still could be related.  I would guess the wrong location for I is being
 passed.
 
 > Welllllll, perhaps this means that this afternoon multiplied one problem
 > into two :-(
 
 Sorry.
 
 Dave
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