Re: a long-standing reload bug

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <199810300749.CAA03544@blastula.phys.columbia.edu>you write:
  > On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 23:23:44 -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
  > >
  > >  In message <199810292203.RAA00552@blastula.phys.columbia.edu>you write:
  > >  > 
  > >  > Now that Bernd's reload changes are all in, it's appropriate to bring
  > >  > this up again.  egcs/CVS of last night (around 10pm EDT) gets an ICE
  > >  > on the appended code when compiled with any optimization:
  > >  > 
  > >  > ../../../egcs/gcc/reload.c:4403: Internal compiler error in function 
  > >  > find_reloads_toplev
  > >  > 
  > >  > The CVS mainline has been doing this since shortly after 1.1 (I
  > >  > think).  It doesn't happen with 1.0.3.  I don't have 1.1 around to
  > >  > test.  Platform is x86.  The code comes from glibc's math tests.
  > >  > 
  > >This is a known problem.   We have two choices right now.
  > >
  > >Generate incorrect code for some cases
  > >
  > >Abort for some cases
  > >
  > >Until someone can fix the problem correctly we will continue to abort inst
  > ead
  > >of silently generating incorrect code.
  > 
  > Ok.  Does 1.1 have this problem?  We're coming in on a release and it
  > would be bad if we had an interaction bug in the public headers.
It has one of the two bugs, I don't remember which.  THere are no plans to
change the behavior for 1.1 for this matter.  This is not a critical problem.

jeff