A new alpha bug

Jason Merrill jason@cygnus.com
Tue Sep 16 10:18:00 GMT 1997


>>>>> H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> Have you tried your patch? on a cross compiler?

Not to the alpha, no.  Sorry.

> I need this patch to get it to generate the right asm code with my cross
> compiler.

Yep, looks right.

> BTW, both yours and Jim's patches sound like a kludge to me.
> I don't understand why it takes TImode to expose this bug.
> Is there a more subtle bug somehwhere else? Also how many
> other places do we have to change to make it work right
> for all cases? Is there a cleaner way to fix it?

I don't imagine anyplace else needs to be changed.  Bashing the RTL for a
variable is not a common operation.

Jason



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