Subject: toolchain/23002: gcc3.3.1 miscompiles newsyslog on ARM
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/29/2003 10:54:22
>Number:         23002
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       gcc3.3.1 miscompiles newsyslog on ARM
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    toolchain-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 29 09:55:01 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Richard Earnshaw
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6ZC
>Organization:
ARM
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>Environment:
	
	
System: NetBSD shark1.cambridge.arm.com 1.6ZC NetBSD 1.6ZC (SHARK1) #7: Sat Sep 27 15:13:42 BST 2003 rearnsha@vpc960.cambridge.arm.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/shark/compile/SHARK1 shark
Architecture: arm
Machine: shark
>Description:
	newsyslog on ARM is being miscompiled with gcc-3.3.1.  The symptom is
	that it complains that the flags for the rotated logs are invalid

	
>How-To-Repeat:
	# newsyslog -nv
	newsyslog: config line 7: bad flags

	
>Fix:
	This appears to be a bug in the GCSE pass of gcc (still investigating)
	A work-around is to build newsyslog on ARM with -fno-gcse.
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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 	-current (25/9/03)