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Re: Sparc bogosity
- From: Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>, lucier at math dot purdue dot edu, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 16:42:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: Sparc bogosity
- References: <200201312122.g0VLMEi11887@banach.math.purdue.edu> <jm4rl2np2y.fsf@desire.geoffk.org> <flu1t1gygr.fsf@jambon.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 01:48:04PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
>
> | ... no-one notices, because few people have sparcv9 hardware,
>
> I have access to couples of multiprocessors sparcv9 machines, but due to
> non-bootstrappability of the tree, I gave up. It is a circular issue.
Likewise. I guess the big kicker for me was the presence/absence of GNU
binutils: without them, stuff doesn't seem to work nearly as well, but
when they are used we're no longer testing the default installation.
[Cue my standard "I have a dream" speech of a future compiler package
which simply ships & requires its own assembler, linker, etc, and can
take full advantage of them all the time.]
I have no problem telling my sparcs to run a nightly tester, but I don't
have the time to investigate the weird failures when it doesn't bootstrap.
(I don't know a thing about SUBREG_doohickey, or whatever was needed for
sparcv9 to work.)
Once rth reports bootstrapability, I can start a nightly tester of some
kind again.
Phil
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