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Re: fix target/6421
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 18:26:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: fix target/6421
- References: <20020424165026.A1845@redhat.com>
--On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 04:50:26 PM -0700 Richard Henderson
<rth@redhat.com> wrote:
> The problem here is that the lastest binutils release, 2.12, had
> a bug in the sparc backend in the implementation of .hidden. This
> bug causes interesting sorts of failues, one of which can be seen
> in the bprob failures seen here:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2002-04/msg00894.html
>
> Given that there will be no new binutils released before gcc 3.1,
> DaveM is arguing that we should detect this case and work around it.
> It's hard to disagree.
Indeed.
> Ok for 3.1?
What a lot of goop. Yes, thanks.
(By the way, one gets lots of bprob failures on a stock Red Hat 7.2
x86 system as well. I've just been ignoring those...)
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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