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Re: The root cause for SEGV in evaluating fortran function call,any solution or suggestion?
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:51:59PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> > You are quite right. Following your pointer, I made another patch and it
> > now passed with both g77 (3.4.4) and gfortran (4.0.1) on a x86 box. I
> > didn't consider the red zone in AMD64 architecture, so maybe it won't work
> > on it. I will try to find a chance to test it on other platform, such as
> > ppc64 or any other platform I can get access to.
> >
> > Appended is the patch. Any comments and suggestion are highly
> > appreciated!
>
> Just to be clear: the patch is _not_ acceptable as is. We need to
> decide what gfortran's debugging information should look like, and how
> the transformation should be controlled by language. Casting an
> integer to a pointer by pushing it to the stack this way is not the
> correct behavior for any other language.
That is okay. I am very happy to know how gfortran should handle this
kind of case. Will you talk with gfortran guys on this? If possible,
would you please include me in the cc-list of your correspondence? That
will be highly appreciated.
Regards
- Wu Zhou