23 May
2012
23 May
'12
2:43 p.m.
Hi David!
On Wed, 2012-05-23 18:54:24 +0100, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
All of the other NetBSD ports have switched across to
gcc-4.5, but
some changes in 4.5 have caused codegen issues in the VAX backend.
Essentially you can cross compile a vax system with gcc-4.5, but
the resultant system exhibits certain, shall we say, glitches (most
annoyingly in the boot program), and the generated compiler is
unable to reliably compile anything.
ISTR that the breakage was already traced down to one single
optimization pass. To get that fixed, the first thing would be to
have a GCC bugzilla ticket for it (I'm not sure if anybody opened one.)
At least, I couldn't find one ad hoc when I tried a simple bugzilla
search.
MfG, JBG
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