More info on egcs alpha bug

Richard Henderson rth@dot.cygnus.com
Wed Sep 10 10:51:00 GMT 1997


> -O2 -Wall -Winline -Wno-parentheses -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings
>  -mno-fp-regs -mieee -fPIC -fno-common -mbuild-constants

Ah hah.  bad.s isn't respecting -mbuild-constants. 

That option was added specifically for ld.so because we can't load
constants from memory that early in the bootstrap process, and so
we don't care that it takes a half-dozen instructions to build it up.

I'll look into this.


r~



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