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Re: egcs/gcc internal errors in the recent snapshot
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: egcs/gcc internal errors in the recent snapshot
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:48:37 -0700
- 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
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990314092929.B32127@cygnus.com>you write:
> 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.
So, this is exposing itself now due to some unrelated change?
> Tege's was; I've also one from a Compaq engineer that was.
Tege's was the first I remembered.
> 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.
OK. I had a few of them saved. I've wiped them from my todo list :-)
jeff