linux-mips-fnet
[Top] [All Lists]
<prev [Date] next>
[Advanced]
 <prev [Thread] next>

Re: EGCS on MIPS

from [Alan Cox] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Subject: Re: EGCS on MIPS
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:52:35 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-mips@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr
In-reply-to: <19980404120554.31953@uni-koblenz.de> from "ralf@uni-koblenz.de" at Apr 4, 98 12:05:54 pm 
> Experiences, especially reliability?  As I understand the problems people
> have with these compilers on their Linux/i386 machines are only mostly
> caused by the Intel backend?

For 2.8.0 there is a catalog of problems caused by both back and front end
bugs. For 2.8.1 it appears to be a case of bugs in the Linux code where 
gcc 2.8 was able to do some exciting optimisations we really didn't want.

2.8.0 has cases where it doesn't properly honour volatile, 2.8.1 appears
to behave
[More with this subject...]
<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Previous by Date:  Re: EGCS on MIPS, Olivier Galibert
Next by Date:  Re: EGCS on MIPS, Olivier Galibert
Previous by Thread:  Re: EGCS on MIPS, ralf
Next by Thread:  Re: EGCS on MIPS, Olivier Galibert
Indexes:  [Date] [Thread] [Top] [All Lists]