Subject: Optimizer bug in new egcc on i386
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
List: current-users
Date: 10/04/1998 08:59:35
In an urgent need to debug the problems I have with the ep driver and
noticing the massive changes to that driver since my latest sources (right
before the toolchain update and the signal changes), I brought two systems
from 1.3G to -current as of yesterday morning (MEST) yesterday.

After everything was up, I blew away my kernel compile directories, sprinkled
the elink3.c code with debug printf's and build a new kernel.

This didn't work: in the first packet send by we0 the if_we.c driver gets
an uvmfault in we_write_mbuf.

Exactly the same kernel, compiled with the old egcc before I updated the world,
runs just fine. Compiling if_we.c without any -O flag makes it work again (I
was using the default -O2 when it broke).

Have to look into the assembler output for details...


Martin