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Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.gdb/selftest.exp
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:12:37PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> With heavy optimizations there can be even more code reordering, causing
>> spurious failures in do_steps_and_nexts.
>>
>> The quit_flag case was seen on ppc, the gdb_std{out,err} cases on ia64.
>
> You may have checked this already but... are these sensible lines to
> have reached, given what's executing? Or are these additional
> symptoms of gcc/26475 or a similar problem?
On ia64 the address of gdb_stdout/gdb_stderr (together with a few other
variables) is definitely computed very early in the function. The
quit_flag case could indeed be an instance of the gcc bug.
Andreas.
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