egcs-19980803 (pre-1.1) powerpc-ibm-aix4.1.4.0 regressions

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Sat Aug 8 18:05:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 9808080313.AA35986@marc.watson.ibm.com >you write:
  > 	I could believe that the LEGITIMZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS macro could be
  > causing problems as there were some comments from Richard Henderson
  > recently that it might not be complete enough to function properly.  I
  > never heard a resolution to that.  That change was made in early June, not
  > July.  You could try commenting out that macro and bootstrapping again if
  > the failure could have been introduced in June instead of July.  Otherwise
  > this would seem to be some common backend bug that PowerPC now happens to
  > tickle. 
The issues I'm aware of with LEGITIMIZE_RELOAD_ADDRESS cause the compiler
to abort, not silently generate wrong code.

Of course, instead of guessing, we actually need to fire up the debugger
to see what is really happening :-) :-)

jeff



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