I found I needed the following patch in order to run translation with gcc 4.6 and -march=corei7.
-M- --- a/pypy/translator/c/gcc/trackgcroot.py +++ b/pypy/translator/c/gcc/trackgcroot.py @@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ class FunctionGcRootTracker(object): 'inc', 'dec', 'not', 'neg', 'or', 'and', 'sbb', 'adc', 'shl', 'shr', 'sal', 'sar', 'rol', 'ror', 'mul', 'imul', 'div', 'idiv', 'bswap', 'bt', 'rdtsc', - 'punpck', 'pshufd', 'pcmp', 'pand', 'psllw', 'pslld', 'psllq', + 'punpck', 'pshufd', 'pcmp', 'pand', 'psllw', 'pslld', 'psllq', 'pinsr', # zero-extending moves should not produce GC pointers 'movz', ]) _______________________________________________ pypy-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev