problem with gfec

[Eduard Santamaria <esantama@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm running the Pro64 on an IRIX/MIPS machine and have a problem with
the c front-end.
gfec translates this simple program

int main( void )
{
  unsigned int a;

  a = 1;
  return a;
}

to the following

_INT32 main()
{
  _UINT32 a;

  a = 0U;
  return * (_INT32 *)(&a);
} /* main */

Note tha a 0 and not a 1 is being assigned to a. The .B file looks like
this:

 LOC 1 3   unsigned int a;
 LOC 1 4 
 LOC 1 5   a = 1;
  U4INTCONST 0 (0x0)
 U4STID 0 <2,1,a> T<8,.predef_U4,4>

If I declare a as a signed int or as a long (signed or unsigned, it
doesn't matter) it works fine.

My binaries of the Pro64 are N32 mips-4.

Does anyone out there have any idea of what might be happenning? I've
been doing some debugging and I think that perhaps the problem is due to
an ill performed conversion of the constant to the type of the variable, 
but I'm not sure.

Thank you,

        Eduard
 
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