egcs-1.1 release issues
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Thu Aug 27 00:40:00 GMT 1998
In message < 9808261603.AA28812@marc.watson.ibm.com >you write:
> >>>>> Jeffrey A Law writes:
>
> Jeff> Regression testing:
>
> Jeff> There's still a few regressions on the rs6000/powerpc AIX targets.
> Jeff> For various reasons I can't perform any tests on them right now,
> Jeff> so it is important for someone to test them with the latest
> Jeff> snapshot.
>
> Regressions relative to what? There are some testsuite failures
> which still are not fixed, but these are things like the small-structure
> passing bug which requires a big change to argument passing and the
> meaning / necessity of MUST_PASS_IN_STACK. [execute/931004-12.c]
Found 'em. They aren't really regressions.
gcc-2.8.1 and egcs-1.0.3a do not issue a warning when you use -fPIC
with ABI_AIX, but egcs-1.1 does. This causes the testsuite to think
those tests failed their test for excess errors.
jeff
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