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Re: Patch: Updates on mips testcases
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 04:14:39PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > 1. You may see it when compiling certain version of gcc with -O0.
>
> That's not supposed to happen. GCC is supposed to deal with this
> by performing the substitution below. This often breaks, typically
> because GCC is misinformed about the length of some instruction,
> but it is also easily fixed.
I've noticed that this problem also occurs if you try to compile the
massive tan tables in glibc with -msoft-float. I spent a while
checking into it, and the length of the soft-float instructions all
seemed to be correct - could you elaborate where in GCC ought to be
fixing this up?
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team