Failure to bootstrap for trunk on i686-pc-linux-gnu

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:23:40AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     Again this is just Kenner's big patch coming into play.  See PR 16237.
>     The problem is that memory layout causes slight differences to make
>     his patch fo something slightly differently.
> 
> I have a fold-const.c patch that tightens the comparison and eliminates
> this problem.  I've been holding it because I was hoping for something
> better, but it did pass testing a while ago, so maybe I'll commit it soon
> and then figure out a little bit down the road (once I've got everything
> working) what the actual best approach is.

Maybe you should post it so that I can give it a try and verify that it does,
in fact, fix this problem?  Other people are having a hard time reproducing
the failure; I'd like to not assume that an unseen and unreviewed patch
will make it all better.

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