Re: egcs-release branch aborts during bootstrap

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <9802130736.AA06633@lts.sel.alcatel.de>you write:
  > On Thu, 12 February 1998, 15:28:22, robertl@dgii.com wrote:
  > 
  >  > [ Manfred, does this fail on your COFF target? ] 
  >  > 
  >  > This command works on the trunk.   It fails on the release tag.
  >  > The sources of the release branch were checked out last night, and
  >  > a 'cvs update -n' in gcc/cp doesn't show any updates pending.  It
  >  > shows up in a make boostrap2 on OpenServer.
  >  > 
  >  > (robertl) rjlhome:/play/egcs-release/native/gcc
  >  > $ cat /tmp/cc
  >  > ./xgcc -B./ -O2   -DIN_GCC    -O2 -g -I./include   -g1 \
  >  >         -DIN_LIBGCC2 -D__GCC_FLOAT_NOT_NEEDED -fexceptions    \
  >  >         -I. -I../../egcs/gcc -I../../egcs/gcc/config -mcoff \
  >  >           -c ../../egcs/gcc/cp/tinfo.cc
  >  > (robertl) rjlhome:/play/egcs-release/native/gcc
  >  > $ sh /tmp/cc
  >  > include/exception: In method `bad_exception::bad_exception()':
  >  > In file included from include/typeinfo:7,
  >  >                  from ../../egcs/gcc/cp/tinfo.h:4,
  >  >                  from ../../egcs/gcc/cp/tinfo.cc:29:
  >  > include/exception:24: Internal compiler error.
  >  > include/exception:24: Please submit a full bug report to `egcs-bugs@cygn
  > us.com'.
  >  > 
  >  > If I change '-fexceptions' to '-fno-exceptions' it doesn't crash.
  >  > 
  >  > If I remove -mcoff, (defaulting back to ELF) it doesn't crash.  The core
  >  > dumps aren't readable by GDB.  Whether this is a GDB problem or an EGCS
  >  > problem is a different mystery.
  > 
  > With my patch `[980205]: Patch for  wrong mangling (was: Re: [980129]:
  > bug in COFF's  name mangling?)' submitted   on Mon, 9  Feb 98 12:25:39
  > +0100 applied I  don't get any  such failures; but  this is  still the
  > 980205 snapshot, I still don't have access to CVS :-(
  > 
  > BTW, did you try the patch?
Where do we stand on this problem?  Is it still aborting in the release
branch?

jeff