Re: [Mingw-users] gcc -save-temps foo.c fails to build foo.o

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

Rekha Deshmukh wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have built mingw gcc for h8300 target using sources binutils-2.13, 
> gcc-3.2 and newlib-1.10.0. The native mingw used for this cross compiler 
> is built using gcc-3.0.3, mingw-runtime-2.1 and w32api-2.0 by specifying 
> target i386-pc-mingw32msvc.
>
> On this tool chain the problem reported in 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-prs/2002-02/msg00170.html is observed. The 
> solution provided is to remove the patch 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2001-12/msg00525.html. But the patch is 
> actually needed in the case of assembly input files. The same patch 
> properly works for cygwin based tool chains.
>
> When debugged through the patch I observed that the st_dev's and 
> st_ino's of the input file and the temp file are getting corrupted and 
> that's why the patch is failing. I feel the problem is related to the 
> mingw stat function.
>
> Does anybody have any solution for this?
> Please guide me.
Win32 doesn't know what a st_ino is.  It's in the structure for standard 
compliance reasons.  Using st_ino from stat isn't possible.  It works 
for Cygwin because they emulate the inode structure using some hashing 
magic.

Rework the section of the patch using methods similar to what are most 
likely already found in other parts of the GCC code.

Earnie.