Re: gcc 3.2 CVS + newlib CVS status report, i960-elf failure

[Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:55, Thomas Fitzsimmons wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 13:22, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I built gcc 3.2 CVS and newlib CVS overnight for a bunch of
> > targets. Ignoring the mem_err/debug.h sparc problem I have 
> > locally worked around, it should match CVS.  I only built
> > C since that was enough to exercise newlib and find similar
> > multiline asm problems in RTEMS. The targets listed as OK
> > that have simulators have testresults reported to gcc 
> > already.  Here is what I have (ignoring warnings):
> > 
> > a29k-coff 	- gcc internal error in unwind-dw2-fde.c
> > arc-elf 	- gcc problem with crtinit .. gcc PR3587
> > arm-elf		- OK
> > arm-rtems	- OK
> > avr-elf		- OK
> > d30v-elf	- OK
> > fr30-elf	- GCC ICE at emit-rtl.c:1874
> > h8300-coff	- OK
> > h8300-rtems	- OK
> > hppa1.1-proelf	- ICE compiling findfp.c
> > i386-elf	- OK
> > i386-rtems	- OK
> > i960-coff	- OK
> > i960-elf	- not ok, libgloss fails to build
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I looked into this failure.  There are two issues.  The simpler issue is
> that the i960-elf gcc port doesn't support the "section" attribute that
> appears in the ELF-specific section of libgloss/libnosys/warning.h. 
> This is easy to workaround.  However, the larger issue is that in
> newlib, "as" fails with an internal error while assembling vfprintf.s
> (generated by compiling newlib/libc/stdio/vfprintf.c).  I've submitted a
> bug report to bug-binutils@gnu.org.
>

Both issues are now resolved.

Tom
 
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