Subject: Re: compiler bug (egcs-1.1.2)
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 08/27/1999 11:12:16
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:21:44 +0200 
 Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de> wrote:

 > The egcs people came up with the appended fix. The log message is
 >         * combine.c (get_last_value): Don't look for earlier sets if the last
 >         known set is somewhere in between the insns being combined.
 > (see http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/gcc/1999-08/msg00760.html)
 > 
 > Just tried - it makes the test program work correctly on i386 and mipsel.
 > Should it be applied to our tree (and perhaps to the release branch(es))?

I think it should definitely be applied to -current, and once a couple
of builds of the world have been running with this change to the compiler,
I think it ought to be pulled up to netbsd-1-4 branch.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>