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Re: m68k bootstrapping broken

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:12:21PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de> writes:
> 
> >   If there is no difference then your patch doesn't have any effect,
> >   does it?
> 
> It should have an effect, but you first have to verify that the bug exists
> in the first place.  The m68k-amigaos configuration may be different
> enough from m68k-linux to hide the bug.  Although this was a long standing
> bug, it didn't trigger until now during gcc bootstraps.

  A small testcase showing the bug would be helpful. Compiling GCC isn't
  fun on a slow machine.
  I find it hard to believe that this bug does only surface by native
  bootstrap because your patch modifies a central m68k.c place.

  Gunther
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