issues on gcc202
paul zimmermann
Paul.Zimmermann at inria.fr
Thu Aug 31 07:04:03 UTC 2017
Dear Torbjörn,
> This is not yet isolated. It looks like a compiler or perhaps more
> likely a linker bug. Last night I reverted another change which
> benefited gcc202, so now there will be more errors.
>
> I am not actively working on this issue, but I will probably isolate it
> at some point.
>
> Alas, I got around to this now.
>
> There were a number of problems:
>
> 1. The pseudo-insn setx didn't work on gcc202. I worked around this by
> expanding the needed insn, and also to go with the 44-bit addressing
> model (instead of the expensive 64bit). 44-bit addrs is the default
> on both gcc202 and NetBSD 7.x at least. (I suppose we should allow
> an configure option for this, but since my SPARC access is extremely
> limited I cannot test any such features. Besides, SPARC is not in
> much use.)
>
> 2. The relocs used for PIC in sparc32/sparc-defs.m4 fails on gcc202. I
> updated with PICkier choices.
>
> 3. The C sec_invert and the Sparc T3 asm cnd_add_n/cnd_sub_n did not
> agree about how to specify the condition. Should true be 1 or any
> non-zero value? I decided for the latter and updated the asm.
thank you, I confirm make check runs with the gmp-6.1.99-20170831 snapshot
on gcc202.
However I had to define INTERPRETER= in test-driver.
Also the "Testsuite summary" is still not very informative:
============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU MP 6.1.99
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 0
# PASS: 0
# SKIP: 0
# XFAIL: 0
# FAIL: 0
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
Paul
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