From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Hartmut Penner <HPENNER@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ObjC bug on 64-bit architectures?
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:43:00 -0000
Message-id: <20011015094336.B1218@lucon.org>
References: <OFE8A06FEB.6E791E38-ONC1256AE6.00586780@de.ibm.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-10/msg00861.html

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:14:00PM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> 
> This assembly appears to be generated by the objc frontend routine
> generate_protocol_list (in the file gcc/objc/objc-act.c).  Unfortunately,
> my understanding of frontend code is rather limited, but it looks like that
> routine is indeed doing a type cast from the integer constant that
> specifies
> the count to some pointer type.  This looks like a bug to me, but I'm not
> sure how to fix it ...
> 

The assembly output directly from the objc frontend is very likely to
be broken. I have seen another one related to size for ELF symbols.


H.J.