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Re: (971023) Addendum: i386-linux-gnulibc1 g++ test results
- To: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: (971023) Addendum: i386-linux-gnulibc1 g++ test results
- From: Robert Lipe <robertl at dgii dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:46:05 -0500
- Cc: Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore dot Papadopoulo at sophia dot inria dot fr>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199710240427.XAA27044@eh_pc11.xraylith.wisc.edu> <199710240843.KAA07400.cygnus.egcs@mururoa.inria.fr> <u9201b15mj.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com>
Jason Merrill wrote:
> I believe that the problem on linux is that you need a recent gas snapshot;
> 2.8.1 fills a .align in .eh_frame with NOPs instead of zeroes.
FWIW, I'm seeing test failures similar (but not identical) to those
on Linux and I'm not using GAS.
> I guess we should go back to calculating the size of the .eh_frame section
> directly instead of using label subtraction, because of this and the
> assemblers that can't handle it.
There definitely seem to be a number of assemblers that are croaking
on this. Several targets on egcs and gcc2 encountered this.
RJL