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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] OT: compiler back-end bug
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 10:47:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190929094726.6488620154@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190929092158.GA27566@minnie.tuhs.org>

Hi Warren,

> If any of you have Intel ia64 skills and/or fixing compiler back-end
> bugs, could you contact me off-list?

Sorry, on list, but it may help the willing eyeballs if

> To see the original compiler's assembly version of fwrite():
>
>         $ ./scc0 -S lib/fwrite.c
>
> To see my compiler's [faulty] assembly version of fwrite():
>
>         $ ./myscc -S lib/fwrite.c

these two were made easily available, e.g. a pastebin like 

    curl -sSF 'f:1=<-' ix.io <lib/fwrite.c

as then spotting the cause of

> At present, my compiler fwrite() code is passing bogus arguments to
> memcpy() where it crashes with a segfault.

wouldn't involve downloads, make, etc., that make it easy to think one
doesn't have the time to look.  :-)

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-29  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-29  9:21 Warren Toomey
2019-09-29  9:47 ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2019-09-29 10:03   ` Warren Toomey
2019-09-29 10:50     ` Ralph Corderoy
2019-10-03 20:03       ` Steve Johnson
2019-10-03 20:03         ` Nemo Nusquam

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