This is the mail archive of the
gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: gcc-2.95.3, but not gcc-2.95.2, requires gas on hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
- To: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.3, but not gcc-2.95.2, requires gas on hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:06:51 -0700
- cc: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>, John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101231637410.1128-100000@host140.cambridge.redhat.
com>you write:
> So... do you recommend that this should be treated as a showstopper bug,
> or is gcc not expected to work using the HP assembler? I'm trying to
> figure out why it now fails, but if there are random bugs in the HP
> assembler there's probably not much of a point in doing so.
The failures aren't random -- they're pretty predictable.
The one that crops up most often is there's no way to generate suitable
code for an indirect call to a static function where one of the parameters
passed in registers is a floating point value.
What kinds of problems are you seeing with gcc-2.95.3 on hpux? [ I really
haven't followed the discussion. ]
jeff