From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Gary Thomas <g.thomas@opengroup.org>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>, David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Another code generation bug in EGCS-1.0.1 
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 01:07:00 -0000
Message-id: <5517.887015036@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <XFMail.980208101002.g.thomas@opengroup.org>
X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00344.html

  In message < XFMail.980208101002.g.thomas@opengroup.org >you write:
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  > EGCS-1.0.1 (and GCC-2.8.0) can generate bad code when configured
  > for PowerPC and SYSV4-ABI (Linux/PPC).  In this configuration, the
  > stack is managed differently when varargs are present (a stack space
  > optimization).  However, for inlined functions that end up not
  > generated inline and nested functions, this optimization is lost and
  > the generated functions generate incorrect preamble code which will
  > destroy the runtime stack.
  > 
  > Code exists in the current version to try and address this for the nested
  > functions case, but it was a little wrong (patch to "function.c").  Also,
  > the case of inline functions was not present at all.
  > 
  > A patch is attached which solves both problems.
Can you please send a testcase which exposes this problem?

Thanks,
jeff