linux/alpha kernel 2.1.108 vs. egcs 1.0.x

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 02:02:29PM -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
> It seems that the egcs 1.0.2 and 1.0.3 releases have trouble with
> compiling page_alloc.c and ip_masq.c in the linux 2.1.108 release. In
> fact, this problem seems to happen with most of the .10x releases.
> 
> Is this a known problem, or should I be writing a more detailed bug report?

It is a known problem.

For the record, egcs 1.0.3, when configured with --enable-haifa,
miscompiles itself.  This shows up in the form of an unrecognized
insn in the aforementioned files in the linux kernel.

The problem does not appear in the pre-release egcs 1.1 branch.
It is unlikely that anyone will go back and fix the 1.0.3 release
since there is the quite reasonable work-around in not configuring
with --enable-haifa.


r~