Re: Bootstrap Failure on i686-pc-linux-gnu

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:29, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Dec 1, 2004, at 1:51 AM, Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> 
> > Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> >> Hi Richard,
> >>
> >>   I'm seeing a bootstrap failure on i686-pc-linux-gnu on today's
> >> mainline with --disable-checking and I think it could be related to
> >> the patch you recently checked in.
> >
> > ...but you checked it it two days ago and I had successfully
> > bootstrapped it yesterday. I guess this is interacting
> > badly with some other patch that was recently checked in.
> 
> 
> This is PR 18746 for which I had exposed a latent bug and submitted
> a patch for <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-12/msg00004.html>.
> 

This isn't my speciality area, but I'm not sure I believe that patch.

ENABLE_CHECKING should *never* be changing the checked structures. 
Calling a different routine here is just papering over a failure of that
fundamental requirement.

R.