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Re: [kwzh@gnu.org (Karl Heuer)] glibc-2.1
- To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
- Subject: Re: [kwzh@gnu.org (Karl Heuer)] glibc-2.1
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:02:50 +1100
- CC: drepper@cygnus.com, bug-gcc@gnu.org, libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <9902131429.AA02866@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
> 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.
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Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@ozemail.com.au>