A very "strange" bug in gcc 2.96

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sun May 21 22:13:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 03:02:37PM +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> > > > > For x86, gas/config/tc-i386.c:md_estimate_size_before_relax needs to be
> > > > > taught how to handle this case properly.  (I think that's all that's
> > > > > needed...)
> > 
> > Assume it is correct, do you have a patch I can try?
> 
> No, not yet, and I'm busy on other things.  I was hoping you would have a
> go at fixing it ;-)
> 

I found out this "feature" while working on STV_PROTECTED for glibc
2.2 :-). I will take a look if it is not fixed in a week.

Thanks.


H.J.


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