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Re: egcs/gcc internal errors in the recent snapshot
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs/gcc internal errors in the recent snapshot
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:29:29 -0800
- Cc: "Alexander L. Belikoff" <abel at bfr dot co dot il>, egcs-bugs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com, tege at matematik dot su dot se
- References: <19990311133402.D30191@cygnus.com> <9582.921405219@upchuck>
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:53:39AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> Any thoughts on why we haven't seen this fail during a bootstrap before --
> it's not like people haven't been using the alpha port.
Previously fp-int reg moves were not possible -- they had to go
through memory. So fp regs were not selected for just hanging
on to random data.
> Presumably TARGET_CIX is an ev6?
In effect. CIX is a specific instruction set extension, but only
ev6 has it.
> I'll probably include it. I've certainly seen quite a few bug reports
> that looked similar. Though for some reason I didn't remember any of them
> being reported against egcs-1.1.
Tege's was; I've also one from a Compaq engineer that was.
What clued me is that I finally got such a report against current
cvs -- before I'd just been thinking random reload losage, and that
it was fixed in the rewrite.
r~