genmatch infinite loop during bootstrap on AIX
David Edelsohn
dje.gcc@gmail.com
Wed Oct 29 17:31:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Richard Biener
<richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
> Because only genmatch calls functions from libstdc++. Btw, why
> would genmatch miscompile an empty function or the call to it?
I tried bootstrapping with libstdc++ built without the AIX ld "-G"
flag and that is succeeding.
"-G" produces a shared object for use with SVR4-style runtime linking,
so this version of libstdc++ no longer allows runtime function
interposition, e.g., operator new, although it is not used frequently.
Something about the GCC-produced tail calls is interacting badly with
that feature.
Note that this makes GCC bootstrap on AIX very fragile at the moment
because it depends on how libstdc++ was built in previous releases. I
can bootstrap with GCC 4.6.3 and 4.8.1 but not with 4.7.3, 4.8.0, nor
4.9.0. A problematic libstdc++ from earlier releases causes genmatch
to loop in stage 1.
Thanks, David
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