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Re: sparc bootstrap still broken


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:26 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Konstantin Serebryany <konstantin.s.serebryany@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:20:29 +0400
>
>> Please do (the same that was applied upstream).
>
> Which one was that?
http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/compiler-rt/trunk/lib/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_linux.cc?r1=168301&r2=168300&pathrev=168301

>
>> Please also note:
>>   - I am on vacation with random access to PC, that's why I did not
>> want to rush with my first commits to gcc trunk.
>
> This is actually another argument for not having external dependencies
> on fixing ASAN problems directly in the GCC sources.

Agree (bad timing, another maintainer from our side is on a conference).


>
>>   - asan for SPARC is not known to work at all (is it?) and thus a
>> simpler fix might be to disable it for now.
>
> I asked for the code to be enabled, because this code should be
> portable to all Linux systems and I also plan to work on Sparc support
> as the backend bits doesn't look terribly difficult (and this is
> largely proven by how fast the powerpc port was written).

Cool! (the port should be easy indeed given that we have ARM, PowerPC and x86)

>
> But this fix also cures problems on supported targets.


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