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Re: GCC status on Linux/SPARC32
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Subject: Re: GCC status on Linux/SPARC32
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 31 Aug 2001 18:37:39 -0300
- Cc: Jack Lloyd <lloyd at acm dot jhu dot edu>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108312106200.859-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Aug 31, 2001, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> On 31 Aug 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Are you compiling with -mcpu=ultrasparc and using automatic variables
>> of type double? This is one of the reasons why GCC 3.0 isn't
>> ultrasparc-ready: it doesn't guarantee proper alignment of doubles,
>> even though it generates instructions that access them assuming
>> they're aligned, so the program ends up crashing. The solution is to
>> not use -mcpu=ultrasparc, since this is not supported yet.
> Could I convince you to add this to gcc/doc/install.texi accordingly?
This is already fixed in mainline, so there's no point in documenting
it in doc/install.texi any more.
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