On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:25 +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 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....
I understand.  But realize that I'm trying to ultimately save you time
in the long run -- in the mean time you can pretty easily hack around
these problems.

> Maybe we should start a timer on this one.
I would recommend against.  Every one of these missing calls to compute
the status bits properly is a latent bug waiting to be exposed.  I'd
much rather bite the bullet and get them fixed now.  The fact that it's
affecting a lot of people keep the coals hot on my feet :-)

jeff


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