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Re: egcs-1.1 status
- To: Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 status
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 13:57:02 -0600
- cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, manfred at s-direktnet dot de, Manfred dot Hollstein at ks dot sel dot alcatel dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19980821210907.A29470@kali.lrz-muenchen.de>you write:
> The problem was discussed around egcs 1.0.0 release on the egcs mailing
> lists. You should find it including test cases if you search the archives.
>
> It was decided that these assembler functions a) use wrong constraints
> and b) use too many registers. The problem is still there, as shown by
> regular bug reports on linux-kernel that go away after switching to
> gcc 2.7.x.
I was informed that the bugs asms were not going to be fixed in the
2.0.xx kernels. Thus any code which sucks in those bogus asms is
probably going to have problems. There's nothing we can/should do
about this.
jeff