------- Comment #18 from richard at codesourcery dot com 2007-09-05 21:44
-------
Subject: Re: internal compiler error: in print_operand_reloc, at
config/mips/mips.c:5579
"ddaney at avtrex dot com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> richard at codesourcery dot com wrote:
>> ------- Comment #16 from richard at codesourcery dot com 2007-09-05 21:22
>> -------
>> Subject: Re: internal compiler error: in print_operand_reloc, at
>> config/mips/mips.c:5579
>>
>> "ddaney at avtrex dot com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> My concern was that the bug only occurs for me with -EB, so running the
>>> test case with -EL would be pointless. I understand that you do most of
>>> your testing on the simulator, but for someone doing testing on little
>>> endian hardware there is no coverage without the -EB.
>>
>> OK. As I said before, I didn't think it would be pointless, because
>> we do want to make sure this continues to work for -EL too.
>
> The only time loading the low order bits of a word is done at an offset
> from the base of the word is in big endian. So I don't think it will
> ever fail on a little endian system, but I may be missing something.
Yes, I realise that, but I meant that you can't really assume very much
about -mabi=64 -msym32 -EL at all from a mips{64,}{,-el}-linux-gnu run.
At least allowing the test to be run in little-endian would have provided
some coverage, and people were still going to notice if the -EB case
regressed.
Richard
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