Trunk frustration

[Jan Hubicka]

> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> > I've got an access to ultrasparc/solaris box able to build gcc, so I will
> > try to figure out whats going out.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> > Note that the sparc backend has been broken for few months before I
> > started work on the cfg_cleanup.
> 
> Really? I have been bootstrapping GCC several times a week and compiled
> our heave C++ projects without problems (apart from long compile times and
> bad code generation compared to GCC 2.95, but that's not a SPARC-specific
> issue).
This is really interesting.
We are having ultralinux installation here and at least there we got crashes
during bootstrap on gen_highpart and several other places.

Do you bootstrap 32bit or 64bit compiler?
> 
> > I made it working for the testing (I wanted to have few architectures
> > available), but I never really tested the unmodified numeric_limits in
> > C++, as the box had outdated binutils not being able to cope with C++
> > w/o some hackery.
> 
> I have been using Sun as and Sun ld for years without problems.
> 
> And in fact my last successful build dates back only four days, so I
> really hope we're just seeing some short term problem here.
> 
> Thanks for having a look at this issue!
Hope I will have luck to localize problem. C++ is not my strong point.

Honza
> 
> Gerald
> -- 
> Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/