Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 09:35:41 +0200 (CEST)


Hi Phil,

On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:

>>This my patch is the needed fix
>
>It's not a fix. You just turned off a pile of optimisations; you don't seem

Sure, my fix is not indended to be applyed to gcc tree of course.

>>No. They should turn off optimization to be sure to not generate buggy
>>code.
>
>But the whole regparm thing is just an optimisation in itself. You are
>suggesting that many optimisations should be disabled just so that this single
>one doesn't fail in a particular case.

What I think is that the optimization code I commented out is buggy and
the bug is triggered by the regparm attribute.

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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