egcs 1.0.2 is broken on x86 and a patch for it.
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Mon Apr 20 13:06:00 GMT 1998
> > Basically convert_regs () calls change_stack () with INSN to emit
> > some insn after INSN. But some insn has been added after INSN so
> > that change_stack () will emit some insn at the wrong place. As the
> > result, the floating point is broken on x86.
> This is an extremely confusing explanation, primarily because you
> use "insn"/INSN to refer to three different things.
>
> Basically is sounds like you have
>
> insn 1
> insn 2
>
>
> It sounds like we thought we wanted to insert after insn 1, but
> because of other reg-stack actions we really wanted to insert
> after insn 2.
>
> > This patch seems to fix it. Could someone please take a look? Given
> > the bugs we have seen in egcs 1.0.2, I suggest egcs 1.0.3 be made.
> I must confess I don't undersatnd reg-stack all that well. Assuming
> your analysis and explanation are correct, then I think your change
> is OK, though possibly incomplete.
>
> In particular I worry that we need to pass "new" instead of "insn"
> to the call to emit_pop_insn near the end of convert_regs. I think
> the call to goto_block_pat in convert_regs is OK.
I don't think using "new" will be a problem. At least, it should
introduce a new bug. I don't think subst_stack_regs will add a JUMP
INSN. If it does, that may be a bug in reg-stack.c by itself. We can
add
if (new != insn && GET_CODE (new) == JUMP_INSN)
abort ();
to catch that.
How about straighten_stack () just before convert_regs () returns?
>
> I also worry that there may be cases were we need to insert after
> insn 1 instead of after insn 2. But I don't know reg-stack well
That is possible, but not likely. As I said in my previous email.
insn 2 is really the part of insn 1 in this case. Put anything
in between will defeat the whole purpose of inserting insn 2 after
insn 1.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)
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