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Re: bootstrap/10129 (Was: GCC Release Status (2003-06-20))
Geert Bosch <bosch@gnat.com> writes:
> I'd really like to get some attention for http://gcc.gnu.org/PR10129,
> which is a bootstrap failure for Ada on powerpc-apple-darwin.
> I have done all I can to pin-point this regression, which is caused by
> patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-09/msg01259.html by
> Geoffrey Keating.
>
> The PR contains suggestions by Geoffrey on how the bug could be fixed,
> but I do not know nearly enough about this area of the compiler, and
> handling of PIC code on darwin in particular, to be able to come up
> with a fix for this.
>
> -Geert
>
> BTW, this has left my laptop unable to build Ada on either 3.3 branch
> or mainline since october 2002, when I reported the problem.
My problem with working on this is that I don't have an Ada compiler,
and so fixing this problem or even just looking at it would take 1-2
weeks of work (that's how long it took me to get a working, properly
installed, rebuildable Ada compiler last time I tried) before I could
even start, and there are lots of things that I can work on that would
give me more results in less time. It would be better if someone who
did have an Ada compiler could take over the PR, and even better still
if someone could make it easier to build and test Ada compilers so
that it would be reasonable for every GCC developer to do it.
Alternatively, it would make it much easier to fix this particular
problem if someone could create a C testcase.
--
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>