Re: [9fans] MIPS toolchain failure

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>]

On Wed May 13 16:00:35 EDT 2009, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> This is on a conventional 386 system.  Compiling the linker (vl)
> failed.  It could be caused by local changes, but I can't see how.
> Can anyone confirm?
>

vc is able to compile vl here.  unless your source is different,
i don't see how you could fail there.  here's my source

>		switch(p->as) {
		default:
			r2 = rega();
			r->link = r2;
			r2->link = r1;

			r2->prog = p;
			r2->p1 = r;
			r->s1 = r2;
			r2->s1 = r1;
			r1->p1 = r2;

			r = r2;
			t++;

		case ADATA:
		case AGLOBL:
		case ANAME:
		case ASIGNAME:
>>			p = p->link;

i would think since p is not changed between the switch
and the reassignment of p, it must be that p is nil
at the switch statement, and therefore i would expect
the crash to be at > and not at >>.

- erik