mainline "exploding"

[cgd@broadcom.com]

At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:27:25 +0200, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > (unit-at-a-time causes glibc to lose in other ways, too, on certain
> > platforms at least, but that's not unit-at-a-time's fault.  See
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2003-10/msg00013.html for
> > amusement.)
> 
> There is problem with renaming the symbols using asm("...").  The review
> of this patch has sucked because we are not able to decide on whether we
> want to support all the funny side cases old syntax has or restrict it
> in some sane way.  But this will get fixed until official release too
> for sure.  I will try to re-open this thread.

IMO, that glibc code is sufficiently ... special that i'm surprised it
ever worked at all.

My take on it would be, make them compile it with -fno-unit-at-a-time.
In fact, that seems like the perfect solution, precisely because that
file really *is* depending non-unit-at-a-time behaviour...


Thanks for looking at the ICE, BTW.



chris