[Bug target/50077] large model (-mcmodel=large) is broken on *86*-apple-darwin*

[egallager at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50077

Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |egallager at gcc dot gnu.org
            Summary|FAIL:                       |large model
                   |gcc.target/i386/pr49866.c   |(-mcmodel=large) is broken
                   |(test for excess errors) on |on *86*-apple-darwin*
                   |x86_64-apple-darwin1*       |

--- Comment #5 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Dominique d'Humieres from comment #3)
> > clang seems to support -mcmodel=large - at least at 3.1 - so any necessary
> > ld64/dyld support is available.
> 
> The test compiles (using -c) with
> 
> Apple clang version 1.7 (tags/Apple/clang-77) (based on LLVM 2.9svn)
> 
> > This is not likely to get fixed in the short term (certainly not in stage 4) -
> > so we'll have to decide between XFAIL/tolerate the noise in the error logs.
> 
> When XFAILed, this kind of bug disappears from the radar scopes and tends to
> rot forever (see pr10901) until it resurfaces in a nasty way. I'ld prefer to
> change the summary to something such as "large model is broken on
> *86*-apple-darwin*" to point to the real problem.

OK, retitling.