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Re: m68k bootstrapping broken
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 06:23:48PM +0100, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> > 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.
With a native bootstrap, the compiler itself is always the first test case
run; this test case is usually avoided when cross-compiling.