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Re: Failure to bootstrap for trunk on i686-pc-linux-gnu
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu, gcc-regression at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:38:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: Failure to bootstrap for trunk on i686-pc-linux-gnu
- References: <10407121423.AA11126@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:23:40AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Again this is just Kenner's big patch coming into play. See PR 16237.
> The problem is that memory layout causes slight differences to make
> his patch fo something slightly differently.
>
> I have a fold-const.c patch that tightens the comparison and eliminates
> this problem. I've been holding it because I was hoping for something
> better, but it did pass testing a while ago, so maybe I'll commit it soon
> and then figure out a little bit down the road (once I've got everything
> working) what the actual best approach is.
Maybe you should post it so that I can give it a try and verify that it does,
in fact, fix this problem? Other people are having a hard time reproducing
the failure; I'd like to not assume that an unseen and unreviewed patch
will make it all better.
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