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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.