[kwzh@gnu.org (Karl Heuer)] glibc-2.1

[Geoff Keating]

> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 99 09:29:51 EST
> From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
> Cc: bug-gcc@gnu.org, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
> 
>     To me, this indicates that _no-one_ is using gcc on powerpc, not even
>     for compiling normal applications, let alone for huge complex shared
>     libraries with -fpic, and it would be lots and lots of work to make it
>     reliable.
> 
> No, it just means there's some bug compiling glibc 2.1 that needs to
> be fixed, or perhaps a more general bug with -fpic.  It should be
> reported in enough detail to be fixed, if it hasn't already been in the
> development sources.

This was not pic code.  It was compiling the static version of the
library.  There may also be problems with PIC code, but this isn't
one of them.

I will send in proper bug report(s) under separate cover.

> I can't speak for GCC compiling C on PowerPC, but I do know that there
> are large commercial projects using GNU Ada (based on GCC 2.8.1) on PowerPC.

Does Ada have a table-based switch statement?  If not, perhaps that is
why they don't see this bug.

-- 
Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>