[Info-vax] Beyond Open Source

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-05-11, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Non-DEC: I'm also aware of a gcc/gas situation where the
> compiler is expected to workaround a misfeature in the hardware
> which if not properly handled leads to unexpected results. 
>
> This will not be the one Roland's been referencing (well, it's
> almost infinitely improbable that it will) because it's a rather
> obscure target and it's highly unlikely anyone here has ever
> heard of it, let alone programmed for it. Unless you're a close
> follower of gcc cauldron and/or Adacore.
>
> I wasn't a compiler developer or hardware developer but colleagues
> were. I'm not in a position to post details here, however, ask
> nicely and you might get email (which won't be very exciting).
>
> That doesn't tell us anything about Roland's issue, but this one
> is certainly genuine, and it would be a surprise if issues similar
> weren't hiding away somewhere on other more complex and more
> widely deployed targets.

A quick hunt around found an old one for the Axis Cris architecture:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14471

I also found this for the Cortex-A53:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18348

It doesn't sound like it's either of those however.

Simon.

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