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Re: Sparc bogosity
lucier@math.purdue.edu writes:
> Sparcv9 hasn't bootstrapped since January 21 with this change:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-01/msg01458.html
>
> as pointed out by Jeff Sturm in
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-01/msg01563.html
>
> Now it bombs even earlier without this patch, which should be installed
> as obvious:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-01/msg02222.html
>
> The sparcv9 port is not in such good shape even when it does bootstrap,
> so far I haven't been able to get it to compile my main application.
>
> So can somebody approve/apply/come up with some patches to at least
> bring it back to bootstrapland? When the 386 port doesn't bootstrap
> it's the end of the world, when ppc is broken there are more e-mail messages
> than snowflakes in Montreal in January, when the sparcv9 port is broken ...
... no-one notices, because few people have sparcv9 hardware, fast
sparcv9 hardware is expensive, and there is no sparcv9 simulator.
Probably the greatest possible contribution to the stability of the
sparcv9 port would be to write a simulator for it.
--
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>