Re: Add -fsection-anchors (4.2 project)

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > The only extra failures were in objc:
> >
> >     FAIL: objc/execute/class-13.m compilation
> >     FAIL: objc/execute/class-6.m compilation
> >     FAIL: objc/execute/object_is_class.m compilation
> >     FAIL: objc/execute/object_is_meta_class.m compilation
> >
> > (options snipped).  These failures are caused by objc creating two 
> > decls
> > for _OBJC_METACLASS_* objects.  I think it would be better to modify 
> > the
> > old decl once the initialiser is known, but I don't know enough about
> > objc to do that.
>
> Thrid, give me a few days to debug this.  If your patch is approved 
> make sure that these
> tests get xfailed and a bug(s) filed for this regression.

Just to let you know I am able to reproduce these (and other failures) 
on powerpc-darwin
after finally getting -fsection-anchors working there. I will look into 
these
failures tonight.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski