Re: libstdc++/23: alpha-dec-osf4.0f: math/mycabsf.c "hard register" compile failure

[Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel dot Dos-Reis at cmla dot ens-cachan dot fr>]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/23; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
To: mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu
Cc: libstdc++-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com, libstdc++-prs@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libstdc++/23: alpha-dec-osf4.0f: math/mycabsf.c "hard register" compile failure
Date: 11 Jan 2000 12:59:33 +0100

 mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
 
 | >Number:         23
 | >Category:       libstdc++
 | >Synopsis:       alpha-dec-osf4.0f: math/mycabsf.c "hard register" compile failure
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    unassigned
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 10 13:27:00 PST 2000
 | >Closed-Date:
 | >Last-Modified:
 | >Originator:     mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu
 | >Release:        2.90.7
 | >Organization:
 | >Environment:
 | alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f, with all relevant patches applied.
 | Using gcc 2.95.2, compiled on this machine.
 | >Description:
 | While attempting to compile libstdc++ 2.90.7, the build
 | failed in the math subdirectory with the following error:
 | 
 | gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -g -Wall -c  -DPIC mycabsf.c -o .libs/mycabsf.lo
 | mycabsf.c: In function `__mycabsf':
 | mycabsf.c:36: Unable to access imaginary part of complex value in a hard register on this target
 
 Thanks, this is a known problem in the compiler.  I thought it was
 fixed, but apparantely I dreamt.  Please feel free to report this to
 
 	gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
 
 -- Gaby