This is the mail archive of the
gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: egcs 1.1.2/ppc: internal error--insn does not satisfy its constr
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs 1.1.2/ppc: internal error--insn does not satisfy its constr
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:59:49 -0700
- cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy at goop dot org>, egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <4.2.0.25.19990322213232.03d283d0@mail.lauterbach.com>you write:
> At 20:39 20.03.99 , Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >I've built egcs 1.1.2 targeting powerpc-linux-gnu hosted on
> >powerpc-linux-glibc1. I'm trying to build glibc 2.1 with this compiler, b
> ut I
> >get:
>
> You'll probably need Geoff Keating's patch egcs-3b available at
> <http://discus.anu.edu.au/~geoffk/>, that should fix it. This patch is not
> in egcs-1.1.2 as it is to invasive for other platforms, but egcs-1.2 will
> probably have all integrated.
No it will not. That patch is the wrong approach to fix this problem.
At the current rate, I seriously doubt this issue will be addressed
for egcs-1.2.
Someone is going to have to step up and fix this problem correctly,
which means fixing the ppc pic support, not hacking up reload.
jeff