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Re: Mainline fails to build
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- To: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: magfr at lysator dot liu dot se, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:35:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: Mainline fails to build
>>>>> Janis Johnson writes:
Janis> I ran into this too, when I start with GCC 3.0.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu.
Janis> The stage1 compiler is miscompiled in function num_equality_op in
Janis> cppexp.c:
Janis> Dump of assembler code for function num_equality_op:
Janis> 0x8089970 <num_equality_op>: push %ebp
Janis> 0x8089971 <num_equality_op+1>: mov %esp,%ebp
Janis> 0x8089973 <num_equality_op+3>: movl $0x0,0x14(%ebp) <--- store new value
Janis> 0x808997a <num_equality_op+10>: mov 0x14(%ebp),%eax <--- load old (oops)
Janis> 0x808997d <num_equality_op+13>: cmp 0x20(%ebp),%eax
Janis> 0x8089980 <num_equality_op+16>: jne 0x8089991 <num_equality_op+33>
Janis> lhs.low is stored into before the old value is loaded.
This looks very similar to the PowerPC regression I reported
yesterday of a register being overwritten by a load of zero before the old
value is used.
David