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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
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Subject: Re: problem compiling distribution
Date: 11 Feb 93 10:09:44
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Peter da Silva asked me to post this for him.
--jtc
In article <CGD.93Feb2084222@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
> on ref.tfs.com, and every other machine i've got access to,
> the compile dies w/ the signal 6 thing...
OK, I found a machine that has this problem. GCC has REALLY CRAPPY ERROR
HANDLING. It just calls abort() and assumes you can GDB it. Phphpht. I put
a patch in cc1/config/xm_i386.h to dump __FILE__ and __LINE__ (habit, easier
than getting gdb fixed on a system with a broken gcc, no?) and the error is
in toplev.c line 903. It's a non-handled floating point exception.
It's breaking on 486en, working on 386en.
The debugging patch is (approx)
cc1/config/xm_i386.h
char abort_kludge_buf[512];
#define abort() \
(sprintf(abort_kludge_buf, "abort() in %s:%d\n", \
__FILE__, __LINE__), \
write(2, abort_kludge_buf, strlen(abort_kludge_buf)), \
signal(getpid(),6))
I actually put this in a separate file and linked gcc/cc1/obj/config.h
to that instead of xm_i386.h
--
Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
`-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tdnddn?
'U`
Tarjoilija, tdmd ateria eldd vield.
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