PowerPC LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS missing "goto WIN"

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Mon Nov 23 12:39:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 9811191636.AA31538@marc.watson.ibm.com >you write:
  > >>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
  > 
  > David> Tue Nov 10 17:04:11 1998  David Edelsohn  <edelsohn@mhpcc.edu>
  > David> * rs6000.h (LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS): Add missing "goto WIN".
  > 
  > Jeff> Is this something I should install for egcs-1.1.1?
  > 
  > 	If we still have time, this could not hurt.  I did not want to
  > continue to add more patches at the last minute and cause you to rebuild
  > the tarball yet again.
  > 
  > 	I cannot imagine that the previous version was correct.  I think
  > that there was a bug report that might relate to this, but I cannot find
  > it and have not heard from the LinuxPPC community about tracking down the
  > bug report.  Without a real bug report to test against this fix, I did not
  > want to unilaterally include this change in the egcs-1.1.1 distribution,
  > using the "bugfix only" policy. 
  > 
  > 	I'm torn about this.  I think it should go in and I think it fixes
  > a bug, but I cannot verify that.
I think we should go ahead and include it too.  Even though we don't have a
testcase I think it's pretty obvious that the patch fixes a bug.

I'll check it in momentarily.

jeff



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