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Re: x86 bootstrap failure
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>, Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 15:29:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: x86 bootstrap failure
- References: <rth@redhat.com> <200112302255.RAA28144@makai.watson.ibm.com>
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:55:30PM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> I do not know what we can do to improve the stability of the CVS
> sources. Requiring bootstrap tests on many architectures is impractical
> for a number of reasons.
It's especially disconcerting in this case because I *did* test on
multiple architectures, and in fact chose them such that there was
one that does support doloop (ia64) and one that does not (alpha).
I'm not sure what else can be expected except fixing unexpected
problems quickly when they arise.
r~