Re: new g77 x86 ICE in 19990328

[Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19990524071933.8968.qmail@deer>you write:
  > This test case is now in g77.f-torture/compile/19990502-0.f and has
  > been discussed (on egcs-bugs, I think) under that name.
  > 
[ ... ]

  > Also, I'm probably going to remove the test case, because I can't
  > find any info on where I got it from in my email archives, and don't
  > want to put it in a release with the author's permission.  I am going
  > to try some web searches for the author and the code first, though,
  > in case I can get a clear answer (or lead) that way.
>From 19990502-0.f:

C Author: Axel T. Brunger

  > Anyway, if you're looking for a back-end bug to squash, fire up gdb
  > on f771, set arg to compile the test-case with the indicated options,
  > break at lang_init_options, finish it, re-set flag_errno_math to 1,
  > then continue.
  > 
  > If it runs to completion, great; if not, the bug (in the back end)
  > is still there.
OK.

  > IIRC, somebody already investigated it and determined it to be (another?)
  > case of %argp somehow creeping in as an (invalid) operand for some
  > instruction.
Ah.  OK.  Then I know what the problem is most likely going to be, but not
a good solution yet.

jeff