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Re: gcc-2.95.3, but not gcc-2.95.2, requires gas on hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.3, but not gcc-2.95.2, requires gas on hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
- From: Bernd Schmidt <bernds at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:39:18 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: Martin Buchholz <martin at xemacs dot org>,John David Anglin <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>, <gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> It's entirely possible the EH code isn't compatible with HP's assembler.
>
> My recommendation, don't use HP's assembler. It has many significant
> problems, including some which make it impossible for GCC to emit correct
> code for certain programs.
>
> GAS (of course) doesn't have these problems, in addition is supports debugging.
So... do you recommend that this should be treated as a showstopper bug,
or is gcc not expected to work using the HP assembler? I'm trying to
figure out why it now fails, but if there are random bugs in the HP
assembler there's probably not much of a point in doing so.
Bernd