From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 11 10:20:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E683B37B404 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742DA43E3B for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 27090 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2002 18:20:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 Nov 2002 18:20:19 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gABIKC2D001867; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:20:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021111190224.B50999@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:20:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: ev4/5/6 issue ? Cc: Andrew Gallatin , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-Nov-2002 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:23:15PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 11-Nov-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > In message <15823.51765.171947.796322@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin >> > writes: >> > >> >>Your initial assertion that this might be happening because the >> >>libraries are built for ev6 on beast could be true. Can you verify >> >>that that 12001f4e4 is indeed inside a library function using nm? >> > >> > Well, GDB said that much already. >> > >> >>That doesn't solve the initial problem of why your make was busted, >> >>though. If its in the libs, then your libs are likely busted too. >> >>Perhaps you'll also need to build a libc on beast, explicitly >> >>setting your cpuflags to ev4. Or perhaps the compiler is emitting >> >>FIX instructions when it should not. >> > >> > I think ev4 should be the default on beast. >> >> This release wasn't built on beast. It was built on a DS20 (which >> is an EV6). However, it should be built with '-mcpu=ev4 -mtune=ev6' >> so it should not be using any !ev4 instructions. Perhaps -mtune >> is broken? >> >> Hmm, actually, the whole release was compiled with > > Is this 4.7R we are talking about? > >> '-mcpu=ev5 -mtune=ev5'. I do know that on alpha gcc "adjusts" itself >> to whatever CPU it is built on, so maybe because the gcc in the release >> make world was built on an EV6 it thinks it can emit EV6 instructions? > > I tested 4.7-RCs on EV4 machines (AS200, AS500, PC64) without incident. > > Poul: what machine did you have? /me has a secret cache of Alpha CPUs > here.. :-P No, this is a 5.0 snapshot. Compiled on the same exact machine as 4.7, but under -current rathern than under -stable. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message