enquire build fail...

enquire build fail...

[Peter Seebach]

Here's '/var/tmp/ccXXX.s':

---
        .file   "enquire.c"
/ GNU C version egcs-2.90.01 970821 (gcc2-970802 experimental) (i386-pc-bsdi3.0)
 compiled by GNU C version 1.42.
/ options passed:  -g -O0
/ options enabled:  -fpeephole -ffunction-cse -fkeep-static-consts
/ -freg-struct-return -fexceptions -fsjlj-exceptions -fcommon -fverbose-asm
/ -fgnu-linker -fargument-alias -m80387 -mhard-float -mno-soft-float
/ -mieee-fp -mfp-ret-in-387 -mschedule-prologue -mcpu=i386 -march=pentium

gcc2_compiled.:
___gnu_compiled_c:
---

unsurprisingly, this won't build, because of the '/ ...' stuff, which is
apparently not being ignored by the assembler, which I suppose was the
intent.

-s

egcs-ss-970821 -- bad comment

[Joel Sherrill]

The message is:

../../src/gcc/config/m68k/m68kemb.h:50: warning: `/*' within comment

The problem is at line 46 where a comment is not terminated.

--joel

explicitly initializing automatics with specific (garbage) values

[Jim Meyering]

I vaguely recall someone suggesting adding an option to make gcc
initialize automatic variables to some (maybe-specified) bit pattern.

I recall making good use of an option like this back when I
worked with crusty old FORTRAN compilers.  I think it would be
useful for C, too.

Does anyone have patches to do that?

Re: enquire build fail...

[Jim Wilson]

There is a macro ASM_COMMENT_START that is defined in config/i386/unix.h
to be "/".  This is apparently wrong for your target.  You should redefine
it to the correct value in config/i386/bsd386.h.  Or if you can't figure
it out, we could always just #undef it, that would work too, but is not
as desirable.

Jim