Re: egcs

[Dan Jacobowitz <drow%false.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 01:18:06PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> : > egcs 1.0.3 does not work on NetBSD/powerpc, period.  egcs 1.0.3 is pretty
> : > broken in code generation on anything other than i386 and sparc, 
> basically,
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> : Not true, completely - I use egcs on powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu as a primary
> : compiler, and it screams.
> 
> Doesn't matter how fast it runs - there are some types of constructs at
> higher optimization levels that will make the resulting code fall over.  In
> short, you can use it to generate reliable code on powerpc if you never use
> -O2 or -O3.
> 

Actually, the only problems I've had were a fit of unrecognizable insns
in -O2 and they were fixed in 1.1 mainline more or less :)

> : The 1.1 snapshots are a lot more reliable - although, unfortunately,
> : they STILL can't get through Lynx....
> 
> "Internal compiler error" or "signal 11" (SIGSEGV)?

VM exhausted, actually.  It pfffts on the large number of string
inlines in LYMainLoop.c at -O2.  But then, so does gcc 2.7.2.x on
powerpc :)

Dan