Hi Maciej,

On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 12:28 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for your work, much appreciated!
> 
>  You are welcome!
> 
> > I gave this a try on gcc.git master with LRA enabled for both non-BWX and
> > BWX targets. BWX targets build fine with almost all languages enabled (I
> > didn't try Ada, Go and Rust), but non-BWX fails with:
> 
>  Thank you for checking.  I expected it would cause issues given that we 
> haven't sorted the conversion of the existing stuff yet and the aligned 
> case seems to have caused troubles already.
> 
>  Are you equipped for and would you be willing to run regression-testing 
> with a real BWX system for me, since I have no such hardware and QEMU 
> seems broken?  I will appreciate that.

Yes, I will definitely give it a go. My fastest, currently available Alpha
is just an XP-1000, but I should get access to a pretty fast DS-15? in the
near future which I could also make accessible for you.

In fact, let me reach out to the owner again.

> > Do you have any plans for handling unaligned accesses for LRA as well?
> 
>  Yes, once the Alpha backend has been properly converted to LRA, which I 
> suppose is not going to happen before GCC 16 though.  Mind that also in my 
> queue there are the VAX backend and the VAX exception unwinder, which will 
> necessarily have to take precedence, especially the latter issue, since it 
> blocks a lot of stuff.

I knew you'd be working on the VAX backend as well ;-). Thanks so much for
taking care of both. The community can't appreciate such work enough!

Adrian

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