Re: pre egcs-1.1 testing and Linux 2.1.x

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:50:59 +0100


>Note that disabling "regparm" does not fix the bug - it just makes it
>harder to trigger. Much harder. But you can still make it happen.
>
>Andrea's patch makes the bug go away completely, and doesn't remove any
>user-visible features.

I haven't yet seen anything to convince me that Andrea's patch really _does_
make the bug go away completely, rather than just making it even harder to
trigger. If somebody can explain *why* this is so then I'll be happy, but all
I've seen so far has been experimental evidence that "this testcase works when
I do this".

p.

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