Re: egcs1.1b and gnat3.10p

[Frederic Abiven <fabiven@teaser.fr>]

Hello,


Juergen.Pfeifer@t-online.de (Juergen Pfeifer) writes:

> I don't believe that the patch is good enough.
> One suspicious line is Line# 2720. There is
> 
> +           TYPE_SIZE (new_type) = TYPE_SIZE_UNIT (right_type);
> 
> and I believe it should be
> 
> +           TYPE_SIZE_UNIT (new_type) = TYPE_SIZE_UNIT (right_type);

Yes, it's a bug (by the way, it's on line 588 in a-trans4.c)

> Maybe there are more such locations. 

Perhaps ...

> When I applied the patch and built
> it on my Linux box using the bootstrap target of the Makefile, I got
> errors in one of the higher stages in the object file comparision.

Me too.

I think these errors are in change of link step (egcs-1.1b use
collect2) and symbol naming (for debugging purpose).

On my system (Redhat-4.0 + libc.so.5.4.44 + binutils-2.8.1.0.23), i need
another compile stage to suppress errors in the object file comparison.

Because of the use of collect2, gnatlink MUST use the ld of 
binutils-2.8.1.0.15 (or newer). 

> So I decided not to use that. I'm quite happy with my egcs-1.03 based
> GNAT 3.10p on RedHat 5.1 which I built myself.

For me, all tests in the example directory of gnat pass (diners, hello, 
etc ...).

But several other personal tests fail so i don't think this is 
really usable :-(.

Sorry for the trouble.



       -- FA


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