Another GLIBC build error with GCC6

Steve Ellcey sellcey@imgtec.com
Tue Aug 18 16:25:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 16:20 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> 
> > This patch looks good to me and works fine on MIPS, now that the GLIBC
> 
> Have you verified that the generated code (with --disable-werror or older 
> GCC) is unchanged before and after the patch (as it should be)?  If so, I 
> also think it should be checked in.
> 
> Maybe eventually these implementations can be replaced using Ondøej's 
> generic string function infrastructure.

I didn't look at the entire glibc functions, but I put the old and new
code segments in a small test program and compiled it on MIPS (32 and 64
bit modes) and verified that the generated code was identical for both
versions in that setting.

Steve Ellcey
sellcey@imgtec.com



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