[ECOS] bug in sprintf

[Daniel Lidsten]

> > Indeed.  More importantly, it's curious why the 'size_t' branch of 
> > that conditional is even being executed for simple signed values.
> 
> I don't think it is. Looking at the asm, it looks like the 
> size_t code has invoked a bug in the optimizer which caused 
> it to get the signed branch of the condition wrong. 

Do you mean that there is a bug in the compiler which causes this to
appear? I am using powerpc-eabi-gcc version 2.95.2, which is quite old.
Is there any meaning to upgrade to a newer version to get rid of this
problem or is this something that can be fixed in the eCos repository?

Regards, Daniel Lidsten

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