Re: Preventing gcc from aligning stack???

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Fri, 28 Jan 2000 10:49:04 -0300

"Johan Kullstam" <kullstam@ne.mediaone.net> said:
> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:
> > My question in this vein would be the -fno-strength-reduce. The gcc bug
> > that placed this in the kernel was in gcc-2.7.2, and was worked around in
> > 2.7.2.3 by just making this option unconditional. Both 2.2.15pre4 and
> > 2.3.41pre2 at least demand gcc-2.7.2.3 as minimal version.

> just when you thought it was safe to go into the water...
>
> strength-reduction is broken again in gcc-2.95.2 (aka the current
> release). i'm not sure about what versions actually do work.

egcs-1.1.2-24 (Red Hat 6.1) and egcs-20000117 (next to last weekly
snapshot, I couldn't build the very last one due to a stupid bug, fixed
just after the snapshot was out) work fine here (i686).

Did you report this to gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org?

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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