Re: GCC 4.0.1 Status (2005-06-27)

[Jeffrey A Law <law@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 08:50 -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 00:20 -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> >>As stated earlier, the only patches I'm considering for 4.0.1 at present 
> >>are wrong-code cases on primary platforms.  There are several open, but 
> >>the only one I consider a show-stopper is PR 22051, which Jeff Law is 
> >>working on, and hopes to fix Tuesday.  As soon as that's in, I'll build 
> >>RC3, and then, hopefully, a few days later, put out the final release.
> >>
> >>I'm sorry this is dragging out, but I think it's worth getting this bug 
> >>fixed.
> > 
> > I'm working on it right now.    My PA box is experiencing cpu faults
> > on its second cpu while trying to bootstrap for a set of baseline
> > results....   I suspect it'll take until late tomorrow before I can get
> > a set of baseline test results, fix the bug, then get a set of new test
> > results for comparison purposes.
> 
> Perhaps you could get a patch put together, test it by staring 
> atassembly output, and then ask for a volunteer to test it?  I expect 
> that Joseph could do a test run on PA-HPUX for you.
Someone is going to have to do the PA testing.  The PA box isn't going
to recover.  Oh well.

There's actually two closely related bugs in this code.  In one case
we can eliminate necessary canonicalizations and in others we can 
introduce unwanted canonicalizations.  Whee, fun.

Jeff