The following reply was made to PR bootstrap/4753; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dara Hazeghi <dhazeghi@yahoo.com>
To: "Frédéric_Pétrot" <Frederic.Petrot@lip6.fr>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bootstrap/4753: [mips] fails to build libgcc for mips target on linux host
Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 02:12:22 -0700 (PDT)

 Hello,
 
 >   A simple work around in gcc-3.2 is to comment the
 > following line in
 >   varasm.c
 > 
 >    2012 #if 0
 >    2013   /* Fred:
 >    2014  
 >
 /dsk/l1/fred/disydent/current/gnu/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/libgcc2.c:62:
 >    2015   Internal compiler error in
 > assemble_integer, at varasm.c:2013
 >    2016   Please submit a full bug report,
 >    2017   with preprocessed source if appropriate.
 >    2018   */
 >    2019 
 >    2020   if (force)
 >    2021     abort ();
 >    2022 #endif
 > 
 >   I'll move to mipsel-elf (that builds fine), since
 > this is
 >   «~le sens de l'Histoire~».
 >   Thnaks anyway for keeping me informed.
 
 No problem. Thanks for the response. 
 
 Dara
 
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