Subject: EGCS 1.1 UPDATE rev. 6
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/21/1998 14:15:43
As before, please do not submit PR's on egcs just yet, as it's known not to
work in several places.  But a post to tech-toolchain@netbsd.org would be
nice.

This status report reflects the state as it sits in NetBSD-current as of
this message, so it may be until the next supscan for all sources to be
available via sup.

===== PLATFORM INDEPENDENT KNOWN PROBLEMS =====

These problems are known, and "working" below does not infer that they are
fixed.

- egcs will sometimes issue "uninitialized" warnings when it shouldn't.
  This has been worked around in the current sources, and is a known egcs
  bug not severe enough to be fixed in 1.1.  For now, "-Wall" does not
  imply "-Wuninitialized".

- egcs issues warnings about "ambiguous braces" on nested if statements.
  These should be fixed in the NetBSD sources.

===== MAIN GCC ARCHITECTURE COMPONENTS =====

- Haifa scheduler:  Available, working and set by default on alpha, powerpc,
  and sparc.  You can build egcs with the newer Haifa instruction scheduler
  by setting USE_EGCS_HAIFA in /etc/mk.conf.  Only the three given platforms
  have received Cygnus's blessing for Haifa.

- alpha: Working.

- arm32: Working except for some problems compiling
  libc/arch/arm32/softfloat.c properly.  This will be hacked around this
  weekend.

- i386: Working, reported by <thorpej@netbsd.org>.

- m68k: Set up but not yet tested.  I need volunteer(s).

- mips[el]: In testing.

- mipseb: Not yet set up.  Some diffs need to go in for this.

- ns32k: Compiles, reported by <matthias@netbsd.org>.  He is currently
  testing builds with it.

- powerpc: Working, reported by <tsubai@iri.co.jp>.

- sparc: Working, but REQUIRES a fix for a null pointer bug in the old gas
  assembler in order to compile -fPIC code.  The src/gnu/usr.bin/gas tree
  in -current has the fix, or a 1.3.x and higher binary is available from
  ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/as.GOTfix - install into "/usr/bin/as".

- vax: Set up but not yet tested.  I need volunteer(s).

===== GCC SUBSIDIARY LIBRARIES =====

- libgcc: Working (now in src/gnu/lib/libgcc).

- libf2c (libg2c): Partly working (now in src/gnu/lib/libg2c).  Needs some
  rigorous testing and LP64 fixing.

- libobjc: Working (now in src/gnu/lib/libobjc).

- libstdc++: Not yet set up.  `This weekend.'

===== OTHER TASKS =====

- Make tree useable for a host other than NetBSD: not yet done.

- Import binutils 2.9.1: not yet done.

- Import gdb 4.17: not yet done.

- Update recursive-directory scripts: not yet done.

-- 
-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)