rotten egcs causing gas pains
Jim Wilson
wilson@cygnus.com
Mon May 18 19:40:00 GMT 1998
Actually there is one frequently compiled piece of code which hits
this, the lat_ctx benchmark from Lmbench version 1.0
A more obvious example is the Ada front end. If you consider the Ada front
end to be part of gcc, then gcc can't compile itself without optimization
on most MIPS hosts because of this problem.
Early on most people didn't see it
since gcc was configured almost always using the IRIX assembler and
linker. But now that binutils is more up to snuff on IRIX systems,
and also is used always on Linux MIPS systems, it will become more of
an ordeal.
This isn't correct. GNU as has always been strongly recommended for irix5.
Otherwise, -g will not work, which makes gcc fairly uninteresting. The
reason few people saw it is because few people have code large enough to
trigger the problem. It is true however that irix5 users have a workaround
(use SGI as) that linux users don't, so it is more of a problem for linux
users.
Jim
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