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Re: egcs: Problems compiling recen Linux kernels on intel
- To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>
- Subject: Re: egcs: Problems compiling recen Linux kernels on intel
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 14:28:29 -0700
- cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199712041848.PAA05824@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>you write:
> I'm talking about the crash here.
OK.
> egcs-971201 still aborts on linux-2.1.70 for i586. I'm going to take a
> closer look at this (thanks for the feedback you gave me earlier!).
OK. If you find anything useful, let us know -- I'd like to be able say
something useful on the web page like (get this fix for process.c or something
similar).
> > [ Note the next egcs snapshot will have the ADDRESSOF optimizations
> > so the mis-comilation problem will be an issue for egcs real soon.]
>
> Care to elaborate?
Just a new optimization that Jason Merrill (and others) developed; it went into
gcc2 just after we made the egcs branch from gcc2.
We'll be picking it up (along with all the other gcc2 changes over the last 3
months) as we do merges from gcc2 into the mainline egcs sources.
jeff