From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 3 15:44:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA09691 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09589 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA10599 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:42:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 23:42:37 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compiler problems with gcc-2.7.2.1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I think this got lost in the E-day deluge so I'm resending it] I have been having occaisonal problems with gcc-2.7.2.1 on the alpha where it makes bad register allocation choices, leading to broken code. I don't think anything in our build tickles this bug but XFree86 certainly does. I tracked down a set of patches from RedHat 5.0 which fix the problem but they are for gcc-2.7.2.3. I am not sure how to go about committing this. I have patched my tree up to 2.7.2.3 and added the RedHat patches but it really needs someone (hopefully not me) to do a proper import of 2.7.2.3. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message