-mcpu=ultrasparc miscompiles (32 bit)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May  2, 2000, Keith Refson <Keith.Refson@earth.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> I have an extremely-well debugged floating-point program which
> coredumps with SIGBUS when compiled with gcc 2.95.2 using the
> "-mcpu=ultrasparc" option.

Could it be because GCC 2.95.2 doesn't fully support ultrasparc? :-)

IIRC, the problem has to do with stack alignment and GCC's usage of
64-bit load and store insns.  I think `-mtune=ultrasparc' is supposed
to work.

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