The following reply was made to PR c/7871; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jim Wilson <wilson@tuliptree.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c/7871: ICE on legal code, global register variables problems
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:16:15 +0200

 On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:57:05PM -0400, Jim Wilson wrote:
 
 > I tried looking at this.  It won't build cross without a bit of work,
 > and the only native I can build at the moment is x86-linux which can't
 > use global register variables.
 
 I do routinely build it using distcc so a cross should be doable,
 probably of very little use without a possibility to test it.
 
 > I tried building it native on x86-linux anyways just to make sure I
 > could build and run it.  I thought it wasn't working at first.  I had to
 > add a 0 to the loops in bench1/bench2 before I was sure it was doing
 > something.  Otherwise it took a fraction of a second to run.
 
 didn´t anticipate that much progress when I wrote the benchmarks ;)
 
 > If you could send me a .i file and a pointer to where it was miscompiled
 > that would be very helpful.  I can build a m68k-linux cross compiler and
 > look at it.
 
 .. working on this, as the testing has to be done on the slow HW 
 this makes it slow to find the error.
 
 Richard