On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Basile STARYNKEVITCH
<bas...@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Basile STARYNKEVITCH <bas...@starynkevitch.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Are you suggesting me to upload to bugzilla the nearly 3000
>>>> preprocessed forms of the files? I could do that, but the *.i files
>>>> totalize more than one gigabyte. A bzip2 compressed tar archive of
>>>> them is almost 80Mbytes.
>>>
>>> That is a difficulty, but without a self-contained test case it's
>>> pretty hard to fix the bug.  You can try reporting the bug with a URL
>>> for where to download the sources.  Since LTO is fairly new a
>>> maintainer may be willing to download them and try it.  Otherwise, go
>>> ahead and upload that 80M tar ball.  gcc.gnu.org will cope.
>>
>> Please don't.  Bi-sect the list of object files by adding -r -nostdlib
>> to the link line.  This should result in a two or three file testcase.
>> Either attach those or reduce them with delta.
>
>
> I am not sure to understand what that means technically.
>
> The sisegv is gotten by running
>
>    gcc -flto -O2 [A-Z]*.c -rdynamic -ldl -o malice-lto
>
> where the [A-Z]*.c file glob pattern expand to nearly 3000 files. Exactly
> those from http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jacques.pitrat/malice-2009.tar.bz2
>
> What command to you suggest me to run? How will I find the faulty files...

See the LTO section in http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/A_guide_to_testcase_reduction

Richard.

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