Pavel Machek wrote:
> Would it be possible to keep 2.7.2.3? You still need 2.7.2.3 to
> reliably compile 2.0.X (and maybe even 2.2.all-but-latest?).
What fails, when you use egcs-1.1.2 to build 2.0.x or early 2.2.x?
Maybe they need -fno-strict-aliasing... is that what you are referring
to?
Regards,
Jeff
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> Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Would it be possible to keep 2.7.2.3? You still need 2.7.2.3 to
> > reliably compile 2.0.X (and maybe even 2.2.all-but-latest?).
>
> What fails, when you use egcs-1.1.2 to build 2.0.x or early 2.2.x?
egcs miscompiles inlined strstr. It gets combined with bad asm constraints
to mean that 2.0 and earlier 2.2 will crash when fed the right (wrong ?)
sequence of FPU ops to software emulate