From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Franz Sirl To: Richard Henderson Cc: law@cygnus.com, David Edelsohn , egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: stabilization issues ppc-linux Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.1.19990112105131.038e31f0@mail.lauterbach.com> References: <18795.916012628@hurl.cygnus.com> <9901102304.AA26846@marc.watson.ibm.com> <19990110205928.A6380@dot.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-01n/msg00403.html At 05:59 11.01.99 , Richard Henderson wrote: >On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote: >> However, we don't want to do this without detailed analysis of the bug. >It is >> wrong to remove code simply because it causes some code to fail. Before >> taking this kind of action we have to have a very clear understanding of the >> bug to be sure that removing a hunk of code is clearly the right thing to do. >> >> Anything less is just papering over a bug instead of trying to fix it. > >Indeed, and would have been in this case as well. The bug existed >before, but for the vaguaries of a hash table didn't seem to manifest. > >CSE must not prefer to retain the constant_p_rtx. The first attached >patch accomplishes this. > >The second is a slight refinement of Franz' rs6000 patch. Kenner's >assertion of no needed backend changes was not wholly correct -- some >support may still be necessary. To be fair, many of the older ports >do work without modification. Ok, with these 2 patches cvs-egcs bootstraps fine again on a glibc-2.0.108 machine with gas-990107 (I wish there was anonymous cvs for binutils/gas too). I haven't run the testsuite yet, cause this machine is so _slow_ (PPC601/75), I'll let it run today. Jeff, your initial email suggested that you had problems bootstrapping even with a recent gas-snapshot. Did you use non-standard BOOT_CFLAGS for that? Franz.