Re: Problem compiling 2.1.111,112 on Alpha/RH5.1
Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 14:23:06 -0500 (CDT)
Once upon a time, Chris Wedgwood wrote
> On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 11:52:28PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> > I am trying to compile 2.1.112 on my Alpha UDB under Red Hat 5.1 which
> > uses egcs-1.0.2 (release 8 from RH, the latest). The compile fails in
> > mm/page_alloc.c:
<snip>
> > It looks like it is failing in the assembly generation of
> > __builtin_return_value, but I don't know where that comes from.
>
> Certain uses of __builtin_return_address is breaking egcs on the
> alpha somehow. As a quick workaround, add something like:
>
> #define __builtin_return_address(x) ((void*)(x))
>
> near the top of the file. It will give bogus printk's values, but
> will compile and hopefully run.
Yep. It compiled, booted, and is running now (I just _had_ to see it
boot with the boot logo! :-) ).
> > Is it part of the compiler?
>
> yes.
Okay, so should I be sending a bug report to the egcs guys, or do they
already know about it?
--
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
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