bug with asm statment in egcs-1.0.2

Toon Moene toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Fri Apr 24 06:54:00 GMT 1998


Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:

>> But the reason for 1.0.3 is to *quickly* get out a release that is
>> good enough to build Linux/Alpha.  We can't fix every bug in the
>> universe.

Michael Dorman:

>  Well, the porters for the AXP version of Debian GNU/Linux
>  has been using egcs as our primary compiler since 1.0
>  came out

[ ... ]

>  That leaves me curious as to what problems the RedHat
>  people are having that are considered sufficiently
>  showstopping to warrant forcing a new compiler release.

Although the 1.0.3 release will contain a bugfix for the Alpha, it  
is in the Fortran Frontend, and not Linux specific at all.

No, I suspect that the problems that have to be solved by 1.0.3 are  
entirely due to the i666, the architecture of the Beast (1/2 :-)

Toon.



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