Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:11:44 +0200 | From | "Stephen R. van den Berg" <> | Subject | Re: FASTCALL in egcs was Re: Kernel 2.1.117 OOPS bug report |
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Pavel Machek wrote: >Stephen van den Berg wrote: >> Not 100%, true. Not really a reason to drop it completely I think, since >> gcc is fixable. It actually is a rather small fix, I just didn't have >> the time and energy anymore to fight with the rest of the gcc-team to >> get this last patch in in a way that was acceptable to them. >> Mind you, it took me two months to produce a compiler and libc that >> worked flawlessly with regparm support up till and including regparm=5. >> It then took me 1.7 years to actually get 99% of all needed patches into >> gcc.
>Is it possible to post remaining 1% here (unless it is too big), >preferably relative to egcs ? This should stop other people from doing >this and should show that problem really is fixable.
I'm already mentally preparing myself to dive back into the gcc code. I'll first pick up egcs and see if I still recognise the code :-). Then I'll briefly see if I can fix it myself using the old patch(es) I still have lying around. If that would take too much time, I'll try and braindump onto the current egcs maintainers whatever information and code-snippets I still have.
Simply posting the patches I had back then without me checking into things first might not be so productive. -- Sincerely, srb@cuci.nl Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).
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