egcs-1.1 status

[Andi Kleen]

In article < 17417.903506876@hurl.cygnus.com >,
Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
>   In message < 13785.46373.418803.512319@saturn.hollstein.net >you write:

>> I've built 2.1.115 already with the egcs-1.1 pre-release; I never had
>> any problems with it. JFYI, I've also built several X clients (xanim,
>> xmcd, xmmix) and XEmacs-20.4 successfully with it.
> Good to know.  This gives me hope that we won't have too many things
> to fix in this stage of testing.

AFAIK most of the include/asm/string-i386.h are still miscompiled, but 
few people see that problem because only some specific driver combinations
use them in critical paths.

I think the best fix is to replace strlen/strcpy/strcmp with the __builtin_*
variants (BTW, g++ does not seem to know about __builtin_str* - is this a bug
?), and replace all others except memset/memcpy/memmove with C variants.


-Andi