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Re: xfs & ppc & egcs

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Subject: Re: xfs & ppc & egcs
From: Thomas Graichen <news-innominate.list.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 28 Aug 2000 05:56:13 GMT
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Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> We do know that there are problems in the generated code for gcc 2.95
> on ia32. We do not know if it is the compiler back end or front end
> which causes them, and hence will the problems propogate across
> architectures. 

> We had isolated a specific problem (I cannot off the top of my head
> remember it - apart from being shift related). We could probably modify the
> XFS code which was affected by this problem, but finding all instances
> would not be easy. I will try and dig out the failure case and see if
> fixing that makes things better. 

> Steve

> p.s. those files could not be more important, that is a fair percentage
> of the journalling code, and all of the buffering code in XFS!

ok ... why must real world always be that way? :-)

t

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