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List:       gcc
Subject:    Re: x86 bootstrap failure
From:       Daniel Jacobowitz <drow () mvista ! com>
Date:       2001-12-31 3:26:07
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:27:36AM -0500, Richard Kenner wrote:
> The regression tester showed a bootstrap failure on x86 with my last checkin,
> but claims it didn't bootstrap the last time either.  I looked at it to
> try to determine if indeed it was my change (since it didn't say if the
> failure was the same the last time), but didn't get very far.
> 
> I was able to determine that the error is a miscompilation of the cmpiler
> by the stage1 compiler since stage1/cc1 doesn't crash the same way.
> 
> However, I was unable to go further than that since the GDB I have doesn't
> seem to support some feature that GCC now uses in Dwarf output.  The two
> x86 machines I usually use are both down and I can't find another GDB on
> the one remaining machine.  If this situation changes later in the day
> I'll take a closer look.

I suggest you build a CVS gdb - either from the post-5.1 release branch
or from the CVS head.  A snapshot from any relatively recent time
(three weeks?  I think) should work too.  This should be fixed now.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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