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Re: ../../gcc/fixproto[275]: 25412 Memory fault(coredump)


On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, John David Anglin wrote:

> __builtin_alloca in the version of gcc used for the initial
> bootstrap doesn't work on the PA

This isn't at all suprising given that alloca on PA needs to move stuff
already on the stack, at least as far as I can figure from reading ABI
documents.  I haven't looked to see what gcc actually does.

http://devresource.hp.com/STK/partner/rad_11_0_32.pdf
http://devresource.hp.com/STK/partner/pa64rt.pdf

Alan Modra
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