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Re: egcs-19980803 (pre-1.1) powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 regressions
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs-19980803 (pre-1.1) powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 regressions
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 19:01:13 -0600
- cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com, meissner at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <9808080313.AA35986@marc.watson.ibm.com>you write:
> I could believe that the LEGITIMZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS macro could be
> causing problems as there were some comments from Richard Henderson
> recently that it might not be complete enough to function properly. I
> never heard a resolution to that. That change was made in early June, not
> July. You could try commenting out that macro and bootstrapping again if
> the failure could have been introduced in June instead of July. Otherwise
> this would seem to be some common backend bug that PowerPC now happens to
> tickle.
The issues I'm aware of with LEGITIMIZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS cause the compiler
to abort, not silently generate wrong code.
Of course, instead of guessing, we actually need to fire up the debugger
to see what is really happening :-) :-)
jeff