Sep 9 change in gen_lowpart_common causes aborts

Stephen L Moshier moshier@mediaone.net
Fri Oct 2 09:52:00 GMT 1998


>   > causes current egcs snapshots to abort when trying to compile the 
>   > math tests in glibc-2.0.96 (on i586-linux).  Below is a small test
>   > program that demonstrates the problem.
> 
> It's easy to forget that gen_lowpart_common must not fail for integers anymore
> due to changes in how reload works.

The patch was against gcc-2.8.  Your test case does not fail on gcc.
I am sorry, but I do not have time to work on two different compilers.
Should I delete gcc-2.8 now and change to "egcs?"  Which one is the real 
gcc?





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