Re: Bootstrap failure on ia32

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>]

"Zack Weinberg" <zackw@stanford.edu> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 05:02:31PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > 
> > After today's patches by Richard and Jan bootstrap on i686-linux fails
> > on the mainline branch:
> > 
> > stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/opt/gcc-2.97.test/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c  -DIN_GCC    -g -O2 -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wtraditional -pedantic -Wno-long-long  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DGENERATOR_FILE    -I. -I. -I/cvs/gcc/gcc -I/cvs/gcc/gcc/. -I/cvs/gcc/gcc/config -I/cvs/gcc/gcc/../include /cvs/gcc/gcc/gensupport.c
> > /cvs/gcc/gcc/gensupport.c: In function `init_md_reader':
> > /cvs/gcc/gcc/gensupport.c:807: Internal error: Segmentation fault
> > Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> > See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.
> > make[2]: *** [gensupport.o] Error 1
> 
> This is caused by failure to check the return from
> identify_call_return_value, which leads to dereferencing garbage
> pointers in skip_copy_to_return_value.  I believe this is the correct
> patch; it has gotten past the above point in a test build, anyway.
> 
> I haven't been able to bootstrap the mainline for about a week, now.
> This is extremely irritating.

My automatic testing showed that I succeeded this morning on
i486-linux.

Thanks for the patch, the stage1 compiler build successfully, it's now
in the middle of stage2 and after that comes a make check,

Andreas
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