glibc 2.1.93

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Christian Iseli writes:

 > aj@suse.de said:
>> I advise to get a new GCC version and try again - if you still see
>> those failures, please try to debug them.  I don't see those failures
>> on my system which is similar to yours (except a newer gcc ;-). 

 > Ok.  Just got gcc version 2.96 20000918 (experimental), and updated my libc 
 > tree to 2.1.94.  I now seem to have a problem compiling inet/rcmd.c:
 > rcmd.c: In function `rcmd_af':
 > rcmd.c:132: invalid lvalue in assignment
 > rcmd.c:132: warning: `__v' might be used uninitialized in this function

 > It seems the culprit is ntohs, which is converted to __bswap_16 (x), which 
 > becomes a rather large expression, which gcc doesn't seem to like:
 >         (void)__snprintf(num, sizeof(num), "%d",
 >   (__extension__ ({ register unsigned short int __v;
 >                    if (__builtin_constant_p (rport)) __v 
 >                        = ((((rport) >> 8) & 0xff) | (((rport) & 0xff) << 8));
 >                    else __asm__ __volatile__
 >                      ("rorw $8, %w0" : "=r" (__v) : "0"
 >                       ((unsigned short int) (rport)) : "cc"); __v; })));

 > Can you help me ?

I've reported this already to the gcc bugs list, so far no result.
Try compiling that file with -O0.

Andreas
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