Possible bug for DEC Unix 3.2 build of egcs-1.1b

["Lyle Johnson" <jlj at cfdrc dot com>]

To Whom it May Concern...

I've seen this bug for both GCC version 2.8.0 and EGCS version 1.1b. The
platform is DEC Unix 3.2 (i.e. alpha-dec-osf3.2). For some, but not all,
files, using the "-mieee-with-inexact" compiler flag causes the compiler to
fail with the following output:

	as1: Error: /tmp/ccFETkVg.s, line 5: Not enough space
	Fatal error in: /usr/lib/cmplrs/cc/as1 Segmentation fault

or, for different files,

	libmld--as1: Internal: /tmp/ccGn9glm.s, line 5: st_pdn_idn: idn (6563139)
less than 0 or greater than max (1127)

Here are a few observations:

 1. It only seems to fail for certain source files. Others compile with
    no problems at all. So far I have not identified anything special about
    the files for which the compiler fails.

 2. When I remove the "-mieee-with-inexact" flag for the compilation of
    those failed source files, they compile OK.

 3. For a given source file, when the compile fails it always fails with
    the same error message. In other words, it doesn't seem to be any
    kind of transient problem related to the system load, amount of disk
    space, etc.

 4. When I set TMPDIR to point to another directory where I have plenty
    of disk space, I still get this error message (with the exception that
    the first line mentions the new TMPDIR instead of /tmp).

I did download the binutils-2.9 distribution in the hopes of trying the GNU
assember (gas) instead of DEC's as. But it appears that gas is not supported
for DEC Unix 3.2.

*Please* let me know if I can provide any additional details or help in any
way to diagnose the problem. This is a critical feature for us!

Lyle Johnson
e-mail: jlj@cfdrc.com
(256) 726-4623