On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:20, Jeffrey A Law wrote: > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:34 +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 16:19, Eric Christopher wrote: > > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GCC%204.1%20Slush > > > > > > > > Just to let folks know that mips-elf fails to build newlib. > > > > There's a segfault in is_gimple_reg_type(), which is being > > > > passed a null type. I'm not sure if I'll have time to look > > > > at it tonight. > > > > > > I took a look and it seemed to work for me, I'll double check with a > > > clean tree and all multilibs in a bit. > > > > > > -eric > > > > This will be PR 21638. There's been several proposed patches for this > > now, but none seems to have been committed. It is getting a bit silly. > It's not a question of getting a bit silly, but a question of being > thorough. Daniel's checking patch has exposed several more cases were > we are not getting those flag bits set correctly and IMHO this situation > has shown how important it is to get those bits set correctly. > > I'd much rather take the time to fix all these problems, install the > fixes along with the checking bits to ensure they never come back > rather than to iterate on each one separately. >
However, in the mean-time I'm stuck. I can't build my world anymore, so I can't test the compiler.... Maybe we should start a timer on this one. R.
