Re: egcs-1.1 (was 2.0.36-pre9

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:42:38 -0700


On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 04:17:01PM +1200, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> Oh, no doubt about it - my alpha source tree is full of small hacks
> because I'm too lazy to get a real egcs (egcs on my alpha is really
> broken).

Define "really broken".

> This reminds me, __builtin_return_address is real pain in places, is
> there anyone where absolutely need this, it seems evil at best and it
> might be nice to eradicate it completely from the kernel.

__builtin_return_address(0) is the best way to get that data.
I believe it to be working in all situations now (except for
MIPS). What are your specific beefs?

> No doubt rth has also read these comments and hopefully will pass on
> any relevant parts to the right people, he's also going to be much
> better qualified than myself and spotting what's an egcs problem and
> what's not.

FYI, don't bet on me seeing anything on l-k, as I don't scan
it that often. And even in this case I didn't catch whatever
part of this thread may have listed specifics.

r~

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