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Re: The current egcs is broken on x86


On Sat, 13 June 1998, 09:49:19, mark@markmitchell.com wrote:

 > >>>>> "Jim" == Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:
 > 
 >     Jim> My patched rebuild failed in stage2 while running the stage2
 >     Jim> compiler to build the SYSCALLS.c file.  I suspect another bug
 >     Jim> in the recent regmove changes.
 > 
 > I can confirm this on x86.  I was able to bootstrap only by completely
 > removing the regmove change, not simply by applying your patch.
 > 
 > Since the repository is available to the public, and since problems
 > like this really do hinder development by others (I was working on
 > some optimizations of my own, and not sure whether I'd broken things,
 > or whether it was the regmove patch), I would like people to refrain
 > from checking in any significant changes that could affect code
 > generation without bootstrapping the compiler on at least one
 > platform.  I don't know whether that was done in this case or not, of
 > course.
 > 
 > Do people think that's a reasonable guideline, in general?

Yep, I can only support this advice, though I must admit I'd thought
everybody was working this way already/always... ;-)

manfred


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