On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:39:45PM +0100, Dominic Sweetman wrote: > > I'm not certain what you are actually fixing here as I've not seen any > > descriptions of problems here... > > Hmm. Linux/MIPS suffers from widespread and diffuse toolchain > problems: I thought that much was pretty clear to all involved. I > agree it seems a pity that the scheme of work laid out above should be > necessary... ... > > Almost 90% of the bug reports I see are against IRIX. > > That does suggest you're missing some pretty large chunks of the > community! No, that's not what it suggests at all. It suggests to me that the dubious state of Linux/MIPS toolchains is due to one of two things: - A pre-existing acceptance of this rather than any real problems - A reluctance to file bug reports We've been using GCC for MIPS for several years now and seen relatively few significant problems, so I suspect the former. There's definitely some of the latter as well, since we've hit more roadblocks on MIPS than on, say, x86 or PowerPC; it's not our worst problem architecture, though. And we've been able to fix them all relatively easily. I'm sure GCC would benefit from access to your regression tests, though :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
