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Re: Ada updates frozen
> > Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> writes:
> >
> > >>
> > >> I'm too far behind on email to understand what the reference to Jan's
> > >> patch is. I do know about Zack's patch. So, this email refers to
> > >> Zack's patch, but not Jan's patch.
> > >
> > > My patch does exactly the same Zack did for IA-64. x86-64 has exactly
> > > symetric behaviour wrt long double and __float128 as IA-64 ABI has. I
> > > really hope that if Zack works out the issues with Ada, it will
> > > automatically fix the x86-64 part too. I can do any help with fixing
> > > the bug if Zack figure out how to make me involved in his effort.
> >
> > I appreciate your patch because it has made it possible for me to
> > reproduce the Ada bootstrap problems on i386. I do not have access to
> > any ia64 machine on which GNAT can be built.
> >
> > The problem is indeed exactly symmetric. I sent a partial patch to
> > the list earlier today. [http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2003-11/msg00064.html]
> >
> > Jan, if you would like to help, could you
> > please try to debug the abort in make gnatlib_and_tools?
> I will try my best this evening. (we do have conference now and I was
> just scheduled to do some other work).
> Does it happen on i386 or x86-64? It should not happen for the former.
> Urhm, yes. Now I see it reproduces on i386 as I forgot to remove there
> hack I used to bootstrap with -m128bit-long-double by default.
> I am commiting obvious fix for this part at least and will continue with
> testing on x86-64.
>
> Honza
>
> 2003-11-03 Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz>
> * i386.c (override_options): Remove hack enabling 128bit long double
> commited by accident.
One idea comes into mind. I think ADA is duplicating all the knowledge
about target types somehow. Perhaps it just gets confused by sudden
changes in long double type size and bootstrap will work just fine on
x86-64. Just testing...
Honza