Re: Abt definition for structure tree

2006-10-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> Can anyone tell me where i can find the definition of tree. Take a look in tree.h. Ben

Re: abt compiler flags

2006-10-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> During regression tests if i want to disable some features like > trampolines i can give -DNO_TRAMPOLINES as an compiler flag. > > Do i have similar flags for profiling and PIC? You might like to check the manual. All of the answers you're looking for (well, okay, most) will be there: http:

Re: Wiki, documenting Tree SSA passes

2006-10-18 Thread Ben Elliston
> Is documenting the passes on the Wiki worthwile? Could some people > document (in a few sentences) each pass (ie each struct > tree_opt_pass defined in the source tree) if possible? Perhaps once your assignment is processed, you could transfer all of the new material from the Wiki into the inter

Re: Compiling with profiling flags

2006-10-18 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Revital > Is there an option to change the name of the .gcno file that is > generated by using profiling flags like -fprofile-generate and later > used by -fprofile-use? I read that "For each source file compiled > with `-fprofile-arcs', an accompanying `.gcda' file will be placed > in the obj

Re: wiki topics wish (configuration related)

2006-10-29 Thread Ben Elliston
> 0. I am not sure to understand exactly the steps (and commands to > run) when touching to a configure.ac file... I made an educated > guess which happens to work most of the time. (In particular it > seems that autconf2.60 works even if 2.59 is required) If you only modify `configure.ac', then i

Re: regenerating configure in gcc

2006-11-02 Thread Ben Elliston
>I am having difficulty getting configure properly regenerated in > libjava so that Geoff's multilib changes will take effect. What > versions of automake and libtool is required by the current gcc 4.2 > branch? The safest thing to do is to always look at the top of the file you're trying to r

Re: Functional Specification for GCC port

2006-11-02 Thread Ben Elliston
> What might be functional specifications for a GCC porting > project.Output format and ABI might be included in functional > specification. Yes--output format would include the object file format and debugging format. Something else that might wish to be thought about upfront is machine-dep

Re: differences between dg-do compile and dg-do assemble

2006-11-05 Thread Ben Elliston
> Although I understand what is the difference between dg-do compile and > dg-do assemble, I have noticed that there are many testcases that use > either dg-compile or dg-do assemble and do nothing with the output. > Thus, I would like to know: > > Is it faster {dg-do compile} or {dg-do assemble}

Re: Abt RTL expression

2006-11-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> Can any one get me the information/implementation of below mentioned > functions? > > 1. operands[0] = gen_rtx_REG (SImode,REGNO (set_dest)); > 2. operands[0] = gen_highpart (SImode, set_dest); Sure, emit-rtl.c, lines 488 and 1165. Ben

Re: build gcc with distcc

2006-11-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> On a somewhat related note, I'd be interested to hear if ccache > could be snuck into bootstrapping to speed up recompiles in the > intermediate stages, especially with incremental changes. (Anyone > tried this?) I've noted that ccache-ing only speeds up the first > stage, as one would expect.

Re: what about a compiler probe?

2006-11-26 Thread Ben Elliston
> I am considering implementing the following feature into GCC using > the patch on http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-11/msg01769.html > : a compiler probe which permits to probe the run of a compilation, > e.g. by displaying in emacs or a graphical GTK application the > current pass, Gimple r

Re: writing a new pass: association with an option string

2006-12-06 Thread Ben Elliston
> >I wrote a new pass for gcc. Actually the pass is always executed, but > >I'd like to execute it only if I specify an option from shell (ex. gcc > >--mypass pippo.c). How can I do? This sounds surprisingly like a patch I've been promising Diego for just about ever :-) Ben

running bprob.exp tests in a cross-testing environment

2006-12-20 Thread Ben Elliston
While testing a cross-compiler, I had to track down a handful of failures in gcc.misc-tests/bprob.exp and g++.dg/bprop/bprob.exp. The test harness was reporting that the .gcda data files were not being created after running the instrumented test case. After some digging, I managed to work out why

Re: running bprob.exp tests in a cross-testing environment

2006-12-20 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 09:56 +1100, Ben Elliston wrote: > After some digging, I managed to work out why: the gcov runtime code > wants to create the .gcda file in the same directory that the object > file was created on the build system. Unless the same directory > structure exists o

Re: running bprob.exp tests in a cross-testing environment

2007-01-03 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 15:43 -0800, Adam Nemet wrote: > If it is not too late I'd prefer the latter. If I understand the > problem correctly the former would still fail if the test user is not > privileged enough to recreate the directory structure under /. Yes, that is correct. OK, having given

Re: Top level libgcc checked in

2007-01-03 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 23:28 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Right now the libgcc configuration is completely tied up with > gcc/Makefile. As parts of the configuration process move from > gcc/config/ to libgcc/config/ (or libgcc's configure.ac), we'll > be untangling them. Eventually, it shoul

Re: Top level libgcc checked in

2007-01-03 Thread Ben Elliston
> We should also be very careful not to introduce differences between > native and cross compilers. So, we should have no run-time tests, no > tests that look at /proc, headers in /usr/include, etc. Right--I was really only suggesting tests that can be done at compile-time. Perhaps there isn't a

Re: http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html points to non-existing source http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-SVN/

2007-01-16 Thread Ben Elliston
> I found out that page http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html points to > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-SVN/ mailing list but it doesn't exist. It's > in section "Write access policies" above "Free for all" subsection. > It seems that correct list is http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/. Nicely spotted. I thin

raising minimum version of Flex

2007-01-21 Thread Ben Elliston
I submitted a patch to gengtype-lex.l last week to gcc-patches. The patch uses some flex %option directives. Ian Taylor asked me to check if the patch passed through flex 2.5.4, which is the current minimum required version. It didn't work. Through some experimentation, I learned that the minim

Re: raising minimum version of Flex

2007-01-22 Thread Ben Elliston
Thanks all for the discussion. I think we can conclude that it's not safe to require a newer version of Flex. I withdraw my patch. Cheers, Ben

Re: raising minimum version of Flex

2007-01-22 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 15:39 -0800, Mike Stump wrote: > On Jan 21, 2007, at 11:48 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > That doesn't sound right. It see flex being run every time I create a > > new object directory, even though I don't modify the flex input files. > > Sounds like a bug. I did a quick c

Re: Level to do such a modification...

2007-01-23 Thread Ben Elliston
> I am working on gcc 4.0.0. I want to use gcc to intercept each call to > read, and taint the data readed in. For example: > transform > read(fd, buf, size) > to > read(fd, buf, size) > if(is_socket(fd)) > taint(buf, size) > So, what is the best suitable level to d

Re: 2007 GCC Developers Summit

2007-01-28 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 11:26 -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > > Also think about what kinds of presentations you'd like to hear and > > encourage the appropriate people to submit proposals about those topics. > > It would be good to bring in the user perspective, for example, a > discussion among people w

Re: Gcc Cross Compile

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 01:18 +0200, idipous wrote: > I am trying to cross compile gcc-4.1.0 ( I have also > tried 3.3.2) for powerpc using a Freebsd 6.1 box. I > configure using: First, this is a list for GCC development, not for users trying to use GCC. gcc-help is the right list to use in futur

Re: minimal version of bison for Gcc?

2007-02-14 Thread Ben Elliston
> It seems according to http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html that the > minimal version of bison required in GCC (for those hacking the few .y > files) is 1.28 (released in july 1999). > > Is there a reason why a 2.x version of bison would not be acceptable? FWIW, > I am not considering u

builtin functions and how to handle them in the CFG

2007-02-19 Thread Ben Elliston
Target-specific builtins (that almost always map to a single corresponding machine instruction) are presently registered with add_builtin_function(). This function takes an `attrs' parameter that can attached additional attributes to the builtin. Some builtins can indeed be marked pure or const,

Re: What tells the coding style about whitespaces at end of lines or in *empty* lines ?

2007-03-01 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:04 +0100, Kai Tietz wrote: > Thanks, that is what I want to hear. May it would be good point to run > over the source to be as the GNAT standard demands ? If I recall, Mike Stump submitted a patch once to do something like this. His patch was not particularly popular be

Re: What tells the coding style about whitespaces at end of lines or in *empty* lines ?

2007-03-01 Thread Ben Elliston
> more potential conflicts between the trunk and the branch and makes ^^ branches

Re: GCC project participation in the 2007 Google Summer of Code program?

2007-03-04 Thread Ben Elliston
> Is the GCC project participating in the 2007 Google Summer of Code > project? If so, is the link near the bottom of the page > http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html correct? Do you > have a list of project ideas? Yes, the GCC project is participating. Please see: http://gcc

Re: gcc gcov and --coverage on x86_64

2007-03-08 Thread Ben Elliston
> gcc --coverage appears to be broken on x86_64 in gcc 4.1.1 on FC6 > (works fine with Trunk). I'm almost certain that this is a known > issue, but cannot find a reference in Bugzilla. I implemented that option, so can probably help you. Contact me in private mail and we'll try and troubleshoot i

Re: PATCH: Fix integrt/pointer size mismatch in splay-tree.h

2007-03-11 Thread Ben Elliston
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:50 +0100, Kai Tietz wrote: > There is another point in libiberty, which has a problem with > integer-values and pointer sizes. This small patch should fix. Please be sure to send patches to gcc-patches@ and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ben

Re: classes visualizer

2007-03-29 Thread Ben Elliston
> What application/tool can show inheritance tree of C++ classes, or > list all classes from a source code, which g++ can compile without > errors or warnings ? This question is not relevant on this mailing list. This list is used for discussions about GCC development. Next time, please try the

Re: gcov in cross-compile: have a patch, seek direction

2007-04-30 Thread Ben Elliston
? Don't use environment variables at compile time. It makes reproducing problems in the field extremely difficult. We need useers to be able to send source input plus a command line without having to further guess their environment. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: GCC mini-summit - compiling for a particular architecture

2007-04-30 Thread Ben Elliston
g and > repetition to achieve optimal results. When I finished my Masters project a couple of years ago, I felt that iterative compilation was a failing idea. It seems, though, that I should have considered submitting a GCC Summit paper on my experiences with GCC. Perhaps next year, if it&#

RE: GCC mini-summit - compiling for a particular architecture

2007-04-30 Thread Ben Elliston
hard to choose a "good default set in all cases". In fact, you could argue that this is totally contrary to the whole idea of iterative compilation, which assumes that there is no good one default set and you're better off searching. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Where did Acovea go?

2005-03-05 Thread Ben Elliston
I'm interested in revisiting Acovea for some academic work I am doing, but www.coyotegulch.com seems to have vanished off the net. The last post I could find from Scott Robert Ladd was October 2004. Does anyone know where Scott and/or his web pages went? Thanks, Ben pgpwz5HR1ZWaB.pgp Descripti

Re: documentation on writing testcases?

2005-03-14 Thread Ben Elliston
There is decent documentation of the dg-* directives in comments at the top of $prefix/share/dejagnu/dg.exp, where $prefix refers to your dejagnu installation. I do agree with Joseph that this ought to be in the dejagnu manual. The DejaGnu manual needs a lot of work (which I intend to tackle in er

Re: `make uninstall' and GCC

2005-03-14 Thread Ben Elliston
Sam Lauber wrote: The gccinstall info says that `make uninstall' would open a can of worms. I don't get it. Why? I suspect because it's tested so infrequently and may not remove the complete set of files (or files belonging to other packages installed under the same prefix). Most people would b

Keep dwarf.h in sync?

2005-03-22 Thread Ben Elliston
Nick Clifton and I have been discussing the idea of keeping GCC and binutils' copy of dwarf.h in sync. I've just resolved all of the differences with the binutils version of the file. Perhaps DJ's merge script could keep gcc/gcc/dwarf.h in sync with src/include/elf/dwarf.h as it does for, say,

"personal" branch?

2005-04-04 Thread Ben Elliston
I am doing some academic work on GCC and am finding it hard to manage my patches locally. Would anyone have any strong objections if I were to indulge in creating a branch in the FSF repository for little old me? The volume of my deltas will not be large. Ben pgpBZUGqq4DUi.pgp Description: PG

removing src/{expect,dejagnu}

2005-06-24 Thread Ben Elliston
For the second year in a row, about 30 people discussed removing the replicated copies of the DejaGnu and Expect sources from the src repository at the GCC Summit testing BOF. The version of Expect in the tree is now 9 years old. The version of DejaGnu in the tree is now two releases behind. Mod

stage 2 date?

2005-06-28 Thread Ben Elliston
(Re-sending to the right list this time!) The URL specifies that the final date for stage 2 is July 8, 2005. I want to ask if this is still accurate? Thanks, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

inconsistent CFLAGS between toplevel and gcc/

2005-07-17 Thread Ben Elliston
I have recently been noticing inconsistent warnings when building GCC (for example, warnings about uninitialised variables in gcc/ddg.c). I had not realised it, but the top-level CFLAGS defaults to "-g -O2" whereas gcc's Makefile sets CFLAGS to "-g" by default. So, if you compile this way:

Re: inconsistent CFLAGS between toplevel and gcc/

2005-07-17 Thread Ben Elliston
> "make bootstrap" should have caught the warnings. It did not. Here's an example: (compiles cleanly) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/build/gcc-mainline/gcc$ stage1/xgcc -Bstage1/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -p

Re: Warning C vs C++

2005-09-20 Thread Ben Elliston
Per Abrahamsen wrote: > A -Weverything that turned on all boolean warnings would be nice. It > would be useless alone, but nice followed by a lot of > -Wno-somesillywarning -Wno-anothersillywarning arguments. I agree. I acknowledge that it would be useless in the general sense (you couldn't us

Re: g++.dg not having one .exp per directory

2005-09-25 Thread Ben Elliston
Paolo Bonzini wrote: > I have noticed that g++.dg does not have one .exp file per directory, > and I could not figure out how to run, say, a single test case in the > g++.dg/tree-ssa directory. > > Would the patch be acceptable for 4.1? What about 4.2? If not, how do > I achieve the same result?

Re: Moving to subversion, gonna eat me a lot of peaches

2005-10-03 Thread Ben Elliston
Daniel Berlin wrote: BJE has converted most of the client side scripts in the contrib directory. I have to see what is left and conver the rest. I looked pretty carefully through every file in that directory. You should find that it is all taken care of. Cheers, Ben

Re: Moving to subversion, gonna eat me a lot of peaches

2005-10-03 Thread Ben Elliston
Kean Johnston wrote: I think svn is a great tool, don't get me wrong. Very well written and got all the features one could want. But I don't know (or see) the actual problem you are trying to solve. cvs seems to be wroking really well for gcc. I could have said the complete opposite. For my G

Re: development

2005-10-09 Thread Ben Elliston
> Ok since I'm very new to this are there any switches when compiling this > source for development purposes? Not really. If you're building from the CVS tree, various assertion checks will be enabled already (they are explicitly disabled in releases). You may want to build GCC with -g ins

dfp-branch merge plans

2005-11-22 Thread Ben Elliston
I would like to discuss my plans for merging the dfp-branch, which is nearing completion. I have been merging all of our infrastructure and non-specific patches into the trunk for the last couple of days. I'm at a stage where I can't do any more without introducing the DFP changes. I have been t

overcoming info build failures

2005-11-23 Thread Ben Elliston
I tracked this build problem of mine down. I expect others will experience it, too, hence this posting. If you're building from clean, you won't have this problem. Mark Mitchell's @file documentation change adds a @set directive to gcc-vers.texi in the build directory, but that file only depends

Re: Performance regression testing?

2005-11-29 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:38:58PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > As a strawman, perhaps we could add a small integer program (bzip?) > and a small floating-point program to the testsuite, and have > DejaGNU print out the number of iterations of each that run in 10 > seconds. Similarly, perhaps we

Re: Performance regression testing?

2005-11-29 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:18:29PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote: > But the big problem is the non-freeness of SPEC; ideally there would > be a benchmark that ... > > ... everyone can download and run > ... is reasonably fast > ... is non-trivial There is Openbench, whose URL I added to the GCC benchmar

Re: Adding new target OS for GCC

2005-11-30 Thread Ben Elliston
> What is the prefered way to add a new target OS for GCC? I've added > the support to an older version of GCC (2.95) but don't want to redo > the work as GCC evolves. The best thing to do is to get the port up to scratch relative to the current mainline version and then contribute it to the GCC

Re: Documentation for 4.0.2

2005-12-04 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi. > Any chances that the GCC Internals documentation will be updated any > time soon? http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/ It looks pretty current to me. > There have been a lot of changes in GCC and it's hard to figure out > the code by reading the old documentation and the new incomplete >

Re: Add revision number to gcc version?

2005-12-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> I like this, but what if you also did an svn status to see if there > were any modifications WRT the branch/revision and then add either > 'clean' or 'modified' to the information. I think this is a good idea (and don't mind the idea of `svn status' being run from gcc_update to do so), but I won

remaining phases of dfp-branch merge

2005-12-16 Thread Ben Elliston
I am now about half-way through the various phases I proposed for merging the dfp-branch into mainline. The patch I committed today was quite big, so in light of David Edelsohn's note tonight, I will sit back for a bit before dealing with the next chunk. Here is what remains: * Merge in middle-

Re: Found error in g77 documentation

2005-12-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> Sorry for wrting to this mail address, but I did not find anywhere > in the bug reporting documentation how to report a bug on > the...documentation itself You can report documentation bugs in the GCC Bugzilla bug tracking system. You can read more on the subject at: http://gcc.gnu.org/b

Re: make all vs make bootstrap

2005-12-19 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Paolo > It supports all the bells and whistles like bubblestraps and > restageN, which help during development. make restrap (taking a > non-bootstrap build and using it as stage1) is not supported. make > restageN is called make all-stageN, and there is also make > all-stageN-gcc to rebuild gc

Re: Patches for RDOS (version 4.1 of GCC)

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Elliston
>2005-12-28 Leif Ekblad [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * gcc/config.gcc: Added support for target RDOS > * gcc/config/i386/rdos.h: Added rdos.h file for RDOS definitions Patches should be sent to gcc-patches. Thanks. Ben

Re: test for excess errors

2006-01-03 Thread Ben Elliston
> Could you tell me what it means for 'test for excess errors'? I run > make check-gcc RUNTESTFLAGS='dg.exp' on my machine, and got many > failed tests for these errors on my porting gcc. The dg.exp tests can instruct DejaGnu to look for specific warnings/errors in diagnostics. The final test is

Re: config.cache question

2006-01-12 Thread Ben Elliston
> I apologize if this question has already been answered but I would > like to know if there is a way to reuse the same config.cache file > for all the builds of all the subdirectories of a bootstrap ? It should be possible, but the configure scripts do not update the config.cache file in a concur

Re: Location for gcc402.zip

2006-01-17 Thread Ben Elliston
> Please let me know the location of the gcc402.zip If you are looking for GCC releases, please see: http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Ben

Re: help with the conception of floating point

2006-01-18 Thread Ben Elliston
> I'm looking at the fp-bit.h, fp-bit.c, and try to understand the > floating point operation simulation. But there are many proper noun > hard to get the conception. Such as You might find the code easier to follow with a quick skim of: "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating-Po

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Elliston
This thread is off-topic for the GCC mailing list. Please follow up on gnu.misc.discuss or some other suitable forum. Thanks, Ben

Re: [testsuite] Executing testcases under wine

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Elliston
> I'm trying to run the GCC testsuite for the mingw target, on a i686- > darwin host. The cross compiler builds fine, and I have wine > installed, so I'd like testsuite executables, once compiled, to simply > run under wine (that means, instead of running "PR10431.exe", running > "wine PR104

Re: Porting GCC 4.4.0 to interix

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 23:58 +0100, Robert Oeffner wrote: > Until now there is no compiler available for interix that supports OpenMP > and that's what I'm after. As libgomp in GCC so far isn't targeting interix > I have made some changes to libgomp in my copy of the GCC 4.4.0 > distribution. l

Re: Difference between Windows and Linux GCC compiler

2009-07-30 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi. > I'm interested to know what is the difference in programming using MS > Visual C++ on Windows and using the GCC compiler on Linux, i.e. what > are some of the things I can do on Visual C++ that won't compile/run > on Linux, and vice versa. This mailing list is for discussing GCC development

Re: LTO merge - free_lang_data

2009-08-18 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 12:01 -0400, Diego Novillo wrote: > Since the patch is rather large and it affects the other LTO > merge activities, I've been thinking about ways of making it > easier and avoid conflicts: > > 1- Keep working on my local tree; combining both free_lang_data and >early de

Re: how to get the .dfa output file in gcc

2009-10-06 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:37 -0700, ddmetro wrote: > 1. In the initiate_automaton_gen() function of 'genautomata.c', initialize > the v_flag variable to 1 i.e., v_flag = 1; It should not be necessary to do this. Can you retry with the .md syntax? Ben

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-11 Thread Ben Elliston
; history of such branches readily available? If that happens to be true with some future version control system, couldn't we restore the deleted branches before running whatever conversion tool exists? Ben -- Ben Elliston Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-13 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 03:05 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: > I don't think we should necessarily limit ourself by bugs in foreign tools > if it reduces useful information. What about a new top-level directory > dead-branches/, not under branches/ but parallel to it? Should be easy to > exempt fro

Re: delete dead feature branches?

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:33 +0200, Michael Matz wrote: > So, why not just move them to dead-branches now, and be done with it? OK, your argument has convinced me. :-) Cheers, Ben

Re: problems with gcc installation

2009-10-15 Thread Ben Elliston
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 01:16 -0700, yzysea wrote: > I need to intall gcc-2.5.8 on opensolaris. In the "make" step, I get the > following message: This is the GCC development list, not a list for answering questions about how to compile up and use GCC. Please take your question to the gcc-h...@

Re: help regarding instruction scheduling in gcc - dfa(deterministic finite automaton)

2009-10-18 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 08:17 -0700, ddmetro wrote: > 1. The starting point of generation of dfa(by reading md files) is > 'genautomata.c'. When is the main() method of 'genautomata.c' called? genautomata is compiled into the build/genautomata binary in your build tree. It is then invoked during t

Re: WTF?

2009-11-25 Thread Ben Elliston
On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:17 -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > Finally, we have a process for reverting a patch. If anyone wants to > revert some part, it needs to be followed. Otherwise *that* would be > breaking the rules... Won't reverting the patch just attribute all of the lines to the usernam

Re: Need help in a linking error

2008-10-01 Thread Ben Elliston
This list is for discussing GCC development, not deal with usage problems. Please try asking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ben

Re: Extending a backend

2008-10-02 Thread Ben Elliston
> Load rt, s2(s18) > Store s2(s18), rc > > However after searching and reading a lot of documentation, I still cannot > figure out all the files that need to be editted in order for gcc to output > an instruction and understand how that instruction works. Currently I have > it detecting the 'store

Re: [PATCH]: bump minimum MPFR version, (includes some fortranbits)

2008-10-06 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:10 -0700, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote: > The last time this came up, the consensus was that we should not hard fail > the configure script even if the user would then be missing some mpfr bugfix > in the latest/greatest release. That's why we have the minimum/recommended > sp

Re: Building GCC 4.3.2 on powerpc-yellowdog-linux-gnu

2008-10-30 Thread Ben Elliston
ld not have to make any of these changes to bootstrap GCC 4.3.2 on a PowerPC GNU/Linux system. We build these compilers regularly and do not have to do this. I think you're probably building GCC incorrectly. Please follow-up with a list of your steps to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: Variadic template function full specialization.

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Elliston
you've found a bug in g++). The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is probably a better place to ask your question. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: [lto] Spurious failures in lto tests with -jN

2008-11-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> I've noticed some spurious failures in the lto tests (g++.dg/lto and > gcc.dg/lto). They only occur with -jN. The symptom is an error > message from ld complaining that a .lto.ltrans.o file is missing. I > think this is a bug in the lto.exp script because the tests work fine > with -j1. I ass

Re: g77 correct version

2008-12-01 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Angela > I would like to install a g77 on my version of Linux that is Scientific > Linux SL-52-062608-i386. > I tried to install 3 packages of g77 but I don't know what is the package > suitable for me and my Linux version. This mailing list is for discussing the development of gcc and g77, ra

Re: should make check be done "un-installed"?

2008-12-05 Thread Ben Elliston
> The implication of the opening statement of http://gcc.gnu.org/ > install/test.html is that "make check" could (or even should) be done > before "make install" > > Is this a correct interpretation of policy? Yes, the testsuite is designed to test the compiler in the build tree. It is also p

Re: gcc-4.3.2 build break at multilib glibc

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> Hi, I am trying to cross compile the gcc-4.3.2 for arm based dsp target. > The following error occurs. Building a cross-compiler for an embedded target requires a little bit of know-how, usually best obtained from various guides on the net. You are getting these errors because you need a C libr

Re: gcc-4.3.2 build break at multilib glibc

2008-12-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> We need to use newlib. when to link with gcc ? whether using newlib will > solve the above error ? It will. One way that you can get gcc to build newlib is to sym link the newlib sources into the gcc tree. The GCC build system will detect this and build newlib for you: cd gcc-4.3

Re: Installing GCC:Configuration (GCC-4.3.2)

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:48 -0500, Franklyn Simon wrote: > I download gcc-g++4.3.2 and uncompressed it along with the > prerequisites tar files in directory (/opt). I am confused as to the > srcdir and objdir mentioned in Install GCC: Configuration. You should take this question to gcc-h...@gc

Re: gcc binary download

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
> I cannot find where to download gcc binary for Linux. Can you email me > the link? It's so confusing in the http://gcc.gnu.org/ web site. You should install gcc from your Linux distribution. It will be far easier. Ben

Re: GCC 4.4 SNAPSHOT - BUILD ERROR

2009-01-14 Thread Ben Elliston
> Could someone help ? Sure, there is even a mailing list: gcc-h...@gcc.gnu.org. ;-) > checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in > `/home/meu/gcc-4.4-20090109/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libgcc': > configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile > See `config.log

Re: Useless option parsing code in genautomata.c ?

2009-01-15 Thread Ben Elliston
> Now I just set v_flag to 1 manually in code to get the output, but I > don't think it is a correct way. > Anyone could tell me the correct way to output automata description, > or help me to confirm this bug? I don't think there is a bug. What do you have in your define_automaton directive? No

-fgraphite docs

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Sebastian While reading through the Graphite code on the trunk, I noticed that -fgraphite and -fgraphite-identity are no documented in doc/invoke.texi. Is this an oversight, or are these options deprecated? Ben -- Ben Elliston Australia Development Lab, IBM

Re: -fgraphite docs

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Elliston
> > Is this an oversight, or are these options deprecated? > > These options are intentionally not documented: they should not be > used by programmers. Perhaps we should add a comment to common.opt to explain this? Ben

Re: -fgraphite docs

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:20 -0600, Sebastian Pop wrote: > > Perhaps we should add a comment to common.opt to explain this? > > Yes, we could apply this patch. Looks good to me (and I think it qualifies as obvious) :-). Thanks, Ben

Re: cross-compilation, deprecated option and libgcc

2009-01-26 Thread Ben Elliston
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:19 +0100, Vincent R. wrote: > 1) When I compile bootstrap gcc, I am using make all-gcc and make > install-gcc and it seems it doesn't build libgcc anymore. I think that's correct; make all-gcc just builds gcc these days. To build libgcc, you need to run make all-target-l

Re: GCC RES: Restrictive Exception Specification: 0.1 - Alpha. Feedback Request.

2009-01-26 Thread Ben Elliston
Hi Simon > I recently (on 18/12/2008) mailed a GCC patch to this mailing list, > but I went on holiday after and have only just arrived back. I > probably should have asked for some feedback then. Thanks for taking the time to describe your work in the right amount of detail. I think you need a

incorrect license on some gcc/*.c files?

2009-01-28 Thread Ben Elliston
After reading about the new runtime license, I did some grepping through the gcc/ directory to see how many files would need updating. I was surprised to discover three files that are part of GCC proper, but are still under GPLv2. Shouldn't these all be GPLv3? M tree-parloops.c M ipa-s

Re: GCC Plug-in Framework ready to port

2009-02-01 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:26 -0500, Diego Novillo wrote: > Yes, that's the path I was describing; plugins distributed with GCC. > I don't expect we'll have more than a small number of them. Mostly as > examples. The usual problem with example plugins is that they stop working. It would be nice i

Re: Plugin API Comments (was Re: GCC Plug-in Framework ready to port)

2009-02-05 Thread Ben Elliston
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 01:59 -0500, Sean Callanan wrote: > Our plugins do not break when switching compiler binaries. In fact, I > have had plug-in binaries that perform very simple tasks work fine > when switching (minor!) compiler releases. Thinking about this made me realise that the plugi

Re: make install fails to create gcc ?

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Elliston
> In any case . .the gcc binary is missing in action .. did make install > fail in some weird way ? Possibly, but make should have failed also. Ben

Re: [Ada] Fix Windows merge glitch

2009-03-01 Thread Ben Elliston
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 18:31 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > * gcc-interface/Makefile.in (cygwin/mingw): Revert accidental > EH_MECHANISM change in r130816. I've seen a few ChangeLog entries like this of late, so thought I would raise something: is it now accepted practice to mention SVN

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