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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 07:44:44 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Gurvich <david.freebsd@verizon.net>
Subject:   Re: Newest loader from CVS not working
Message-ID:  <20050524144444.GA29113@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <42914448.5020505@samsco.org>
References:  <20050518051111.GA33262@Athena.infor.org> <20050520164349.GD6982@dragon.NUXI.org> <428E1815.8080500@samsco.org> <200505221453.44007.peter@wemm.org> <429105D8.6000106@samsco.org> <20050523021527.GA62693@dragon.NUXI.org> <42914448.5020505@samsco.org>

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On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 08:47:36PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 04:21:12PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> >>>What I fixed was an amd64 build problem.  The thread starter here was 
> >>>talking about pentium-m builds, so I assume its i386 in this case.
> >>Yes, the threads jumped back and forth between people experiencing
> >>problems with non-default CFLAGS <..snip..>
> >
> >
> >I've heard those problems on and off for a year now - with no one
> >experiencing the problem spending sufficient effort to provide a decent
> >analysis of the issue.
> 
> Re-read the threads.  There is a lot of good analysis on how gcc was 
> emitting SSE instructions.

I don't see how that could be the case:

    RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/Makefile.inc,v
    ..
    ----------------------------
    revision 1.10
    date: 2005/03/15 18:43:36;  author: obrien;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
    Ensure GCC does not use FP registers in integer code.
    I think all we really need is -fno-sse2.
    I really don't like cluttering up the compiler invocation,
    but this bigger hammer will fix reported problems for now.
    ----------------------------
    diff -u -u -0 -r1.9 -r1.10
    --- Makefile.inc        9 Feb 2004 14:11:55 -0000       1.9
    +++ Makefile.inc        15 Mar 2005 18:43:36 -0000      1.10
    @@ -8 +8,2 @@
    -CFLAGS+=       -ffreestanding -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
    +CFLAGS+=       -ffreestanding -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 \
    +               -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2

An _analysis_ would be someone experiencing a problem clearly showing
SSE[2] instructions in their .s files.  Along with figuring out why the
above flags didn't handle the issue.  Also telling the results of trying
CPUTYPE={<empty>,i486,pentium,pentium-pro,pentium3m,pentium4,pentium4m}
(or <empty>,i486,pentium,k6,k6-2,athlon,athlon-xp).

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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