On 10/5/23 08:56, Richard Kenner wrote:
At that particular time I think Kenner was mostly focused on the alpha
and ppc ports, but I think he was also still poking around with romp and
a29k. I think romp is an unlikely target for this because it didn't
promote modes and it wasn't even building for several months
(April->late July).
Obviously, I have no recollection of that change at all.
That's the assumption I made :-)
In July of 1994, I don't believe I was actively working on much in the
way of ports, though I could be misremembering. My guess is that this
change was to fix some bug, but I'm a bit mystified why I'd have
batched so many different changes together in one ChangeLog entry like
that. I think you're correct that it was most likely the Alpha that
showed the bug.
The alpha was a combination of my memory and reviewing patches/email
messages in that time span.
I agree this was almost certainly meant to be a bugfix and I suspect the
bug was expanding directly into a promoted subreg target and ending up
with inconsistency between the value and the promoted subreg state bits.
Jeff
