[Bug ada/12761] [3.4 regression] Segmentation fault in gnat1 compiling a-except.adb

["dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca  2003-12-31 22:03 -------
Subject: Re:  [3.4 regression] Segmentation fault in gnat1 comp

> One of these things must happen: 
> (1) a-except.adb must be kludged for 3.4 so that ada will build with
> gcc-3.3. 
> (2) gcc-3.3-branch must be fixed so that it compiled a-except.adb correctly.
> 
> (3) It must be demonstrated that 3.4 can be bootstrapped with some other 
> released version.  (I believe that gcc-3.4 cannot be bootstrapped with gnat 
> 3.15p, but feel free to prove me wrong.) 

There is a work around to build with 3.3.  The fault doesn't occur
if -O1 is used in stage 1.  However, my preference would be to backport
the 3.4 fix, whatever it is.

I'm rather handicapped in looking at this because I don't currently have
a version of gdb that understands ada.

Dave


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