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Re: Bootstrap comparison failure on i686-linux
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Subject: Re: Bootstrap comparison failure on i686-linux
- From: Michael Hayes <m dot hayes at elec dot canterbury dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 11:53:44 +1300 (NZDT)
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <u8wvc8lcc2.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> <01010620510700.17287@enzo.bigblue.local>
Franz Sirl writes:
> I have similar problems on powerpc-linux-gnu and for me the
> differences start in the loop dump. After realizing that I checked out
> the recent loop patches from Michael Hayes and I think I found a
> difference against the original code, realloced memory is not cleared
> anymore. VARRAY_GROW handled that automatically before. The appended
> patch fixes that, but I don't know yet if it really fixes the
> comparison failure, bootstrap is still running. You might wanna try
> the patch nevertheless though. I'll check it in under the "obvious
> fix rule" if it fixes my comparison failure.
Weird, I thought I explicitly zeroed the fields that needed to be
reset. I'll think through this again. Unfortunately, I cannot get a
bootstrap to fail (i686-pc-linux-gnu) or a new regression to appear...
Michael