Re: GCC stack backtraces

Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net writes: [...] If Ian's DWARF reader is simple enough (since suited for a single purpose), it might be helpful to avoid yet another external library dependency for GCC. [...] OTOH, DWARF is not a stationary target, so one should consider the

Re: GCC 4.7.2: Mudflap linker errors

bd satish bdsat...@gmail.com writes: [...] The following piece of code, gives undefined references to __real_malloc, __real_free, etc.: Compiled with: g++ -fmudflap references.cc -lmudflap /lib64/libmudflap.a(mf-runtime.o): In function `__mfu_check': ../libmudflap/mf-runtime.c:912:

Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists?

Hi - On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: [...] I'd love to see data on this. As others have pointed out, almost every other open source project accepts html email. [...] Do you have reason to believe our existing spam detection solution will start to fail

Re: Vandalised wiki page

Hi - Looking at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/RecentChanges shows that the GCC wiki is being spammed a lot. Somebody should employ some kind of spam protection. Several other sourceware-hosted moin wikis have adopted a group-ACL-based protection, which has eliminated the problem. This involves

Re: Vandalised wiki page

Hi - On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:06:22PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: [...] (Assuming we want to go down the ACL route.) Done! :-) Is there an easy way to revert a spam change to a page? I don't see one. Doh, found it in the more actions dropdown. (It's only accessible there to admin moin

Re: Warning about __DATE__ and __TIME__

Gerald Pfeifer ger...@pfeifer.com writes: To make it easier to reproduce builds of software and entire GNU/Linux distributions, RMS had the idea of adding a warning to GCC that warns about the use of __DATE__ and __TIME__. [...] How about instead adding a --time=X option to gcc (cpp?)

Re: Report on the bounded pointers work

Yury Gribov y.gri...@samsung.com writes: [...] [mudflap] never reached a point where interoperability across objects with and without mudflap instrumentation worked Could you add more details? E.g. I don't see how mudflap interoperability is different from AdressSanitizer which seems to be

Re: git mirror hasn't been updated for 8 hours

Hi - There appears to have been a problem with bernie's cron-based git-svn-fetch job, due to a corrupted (emptied) .git/svn/.cache/XXX.db file. With that file removed, the cron job is running again. A little bit extra logging was added to help pinpoint the cause next time. - FChE

Re: GCC Wiki, struggling to make a new user

Hi - I'm trying to create a new account for the GCC wiki using the account creation page at: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/HomePage?action=newaccount but things are not going well. I fill in the form and click create account. After thinking for a while the page returns a Gateway Error. [...]

ssl support for https://gcc.gnu.org/

Hi - Thanks to help from Lisa Marie Maginnis li...@fsf.org, we now have a valid ssl/tls certificate for gcc.gnu.org, so the web server now makes https://gcc.gnu.org/* files available. Please let me/overseers know if you see any problems. One complication is the use of literal link

Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC

Mark Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Who is we? What better debugging are GCC users demanding? What debugging difficulties are they experiencing? Who is that set of users? What functional changes would improve those cases? What is the cost of those improvements in

Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC

Hi - (BTW, sorry for reopening this old thread if people are sick tired of it.) Mark Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] That's what I'm asking. First and foremost, I want to know what, concretely, Alexandre is trying to achieve, beyond better debugging info for optimized

Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC

Ian Lance Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Because a compiler that generates incorrect instructions is completely useless for all users. Surely you overstate this: gcc has always included a generous serving of incorrect-code-generation bugs. A compiler that generates incorrect debug

Re: Designs for better debug info in GCC

Richard Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I chose to ignore this problem and say we debug the optimized program, not the source as far as life ranges are concerned. [...] Yes, and this choice has a certain pragmatism. However, it seems to miss the basic observation that what drives

Re: [PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv

Mark Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] You seem to be focusing on making -ftrapv capture 100% of overflows, so that people could depend on their programs crashing if they had an overflow. That might be useful in two circumstances: (a) getting bugs out (though for an example like the

Re: [PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv

Hi - On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:30:25AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote: [...] Safety-critical and security-critical software are two totally different concepts. Be careful not to confuse them. In safety-critical software, e.g. avionics system, it is not acceptable for the system to crash. In

Re: [PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv

Hi - On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:20:30AM -0500, Robert Dewar wrote: [...] (Off topic, but I'd expect that avionics software is engineered with enough layers of protection, including catching traps, so that a -ftrapv hit would not cause a deep impact.) As I say, it is more usual in avionics

Re: Bugzilla down

octoploid cryptooctopl...@gmail.com writes: Actually, the whole gcc.gnu.org since yesterday seems rather flaky. At the moment it works fine for me, though. Same symptoms as those on kernel.org In gcc.gnu.org's case, apparently this was being caused by someone hammering on the bugzilla

Re: GIT Mirror Down?

Iyer, Balaji V balaji.v.i...@intel.com writes: Is the GIT mirror for GCC down? I tried clicking on the snapshot link near a commit and it is timing out. It could be that generating the snapshot is taking more CPU time than the web server is configured to permit. Consider making your own git

Re: Function parameter debug info at -O0

Senthil Kumar Selvaraj senthil_kumar.selva...@atmel.com writes: [...] The following program, when compiled with -O0 -g3 (x86_64 target, but doesn't seem to matter), shows wrong values for p (function parameter) when debugging. [...] This sounds like

Re: The Extension to ELF

Ian Lance Taylor i...@google.com writes: [...] ELF is designed to permit fast program loading at runtime, and to permit fast linking. Changing symbol and relocation values to take general expressions works against that goal. [...] It may interest you to know that, for an older Cygnus

Re: The Extension to ELF

Hi - On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 06:23:52AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [...] This has been merged into gnu binutils some time ago, though is not widely known, and only used by a single cgen-based gas port. See the OBJ_COMPLEX_RELC conditionals in gas/*, the BSF_*RELC/STT_RELC logic in

Re: The Extension to ELF

Fumiaki Isoya iso...@gmail.com writes: It may interest you to know that, for an older Cygnus project (mep), we implemented a facility called computed/complex relocations, as an ELF extension. This is a way of encoding general symbol/arithmetic expressions to be evaluated at link time and

Re: New GCC takes 19x as long to compile my program (compared to old GCC), plus void** patch suggestion

Elmar Krieger el...@cmbi.ru.nl writes: [...] I really didn't expect that RedHat and Google both mess up GCC with their modifications, so I'll report it to them instead ;-) That's not a fair characterization of the features' costs/benefits. - FChE

Re: Official GCC git repository

Hi - Git-daemon is already running, i think (frank, is this right?) Yup. We can slot in a gcc git mirror beside the half-dozen others we already have. (Angela: the payload data is under the new /sourceware/projects/FOO-home/gitfiles directory; symlinks from /git.) I'll try to set up the

Re: Official GCC git repository

Hi - On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:47:52PM +0100, Bernardo Innocenti wrote: As stated above, I'd like to request shell access to gcc.gnu.org to setup a git mirror of the GCC svn repository. I'd also suggest Harvey Harrison as a co-maintainer of the mirror, as he helped setting it up on

Re: Official GCC git repository

Hi - On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:41:42AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: [...] OK, /git/gcc.git appears ready for you to populate maintain. Access as {http,git,ssh}://gcc.gnu.org/gcc.git should all work. Just a reminder - an empty git repository has been ready for you for some time. - FChE

Re: Libmudflap-failures-gcc4.1.2

mal reddy y [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am getting libmudflap crash test failures like this, any help will be appreciated. [...] FAIL: libmudflap.c/fail1-frag.c crash test FAIL: libmudflap.c/fail10-frag.c crash test FAIL: libmudflap.c/fail11-frag.c crash test [...] All these tests are

Re: Libmudflap-failures-gcc4.1.2

Hi - On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:49:48AM +0530, mal reddy y wrote: The libmudflap.log contains , [...] Executing on mips-sony-linux: /tmp/fail10-frag.exe.32708(timeout = 3000) call-remote standard exec Executing mips-sony-linux:/tmp/fail10-frag.exe.32708 /*usr/bin/ssh output

Re: libmudflap and emutls question

Jie Zhang jie.zh...@analog.com writes: I encountered a recursive call problem between libmudflap and emutls when testing libmudflap for Blackfin. But I think this issue affects all targets without TLS. Thank you for the report. One libmudflap test case in the testsuite calls __wrap_calloc.

Re: CGEN-generated files vs GPL

DJ Delorie d...@redhat.com writes: What are the implications (GPL-wise) of using CGEN-generated files in gcc? Specifically, I'm working on a second attempt to contribute the MeP port, and its intrinsics are CGEN-generated (and there are a *lot* of them - most opcodes have an intrinsic).

Re: Reconsidering gcjx

Kaveh R. Ghazi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] IMHO, writing your frontend in the same language it's intended to compile causes it to be marginalized. It no longer becomes part of the default bootstrap sequence and gets much less testing. [..] Even if so, it may be worth spelling out some

Re: Making a variable addressable in GIMPLE

Yoav Etsion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The transformation is simple: mudflap already injects a call to __mf_register when an addressable variable is declared. I want to do the same for all pointer variables [...] Why? If those pointers are not themselves taken address of, what kind access to

Re: Making a variable addressable in GIMPLE

Yoav Etsion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The pointer variable's address is used as the pointer's unique ID in a database, collecting information about each pointer variable - mostly its legal bounds. That way I can test when a pointer crosses its object's bounds. If I understand correctly, you

Re: GCC-4.1.x include/ssl/*.h ??

Hi - On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:54:09PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Cross building and installing gcc-4.1.0 rc2 (--prefix=/usr/local) installs these headers: [...] Related problems include Bugzilla #23935 ($PREFIX/include/ffi.h), #25938

Re: -fmudflap and -fmudflapth

Rafael Espíndola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use `-fmudflapth' instead of `-fmudflap' to compile and to link if your program is multi-threaded. [...but...] gate_mudflap (void) { return flag_mudflap != 0 } Maybe something broke this, but -fmudflapth used to imply setting both flag_mudflap and

Re: using libmudflap with non-instrumented shared libraries

rafael.espindola wrote: [...] extern char *p; [...] char a = p[0]; [...] compile and link with gcc -shared -fPIC a.c -o liba.so gcc -fmudflap -lmudflap b.c -la -L. -o b Did the compiler give you a warning about inability to track the lifetime of p? It should have. - FChE

Re: Mudflap and freeing C runtime memory upon exit (feature request)

Vesselin Peev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I have a feature request for mudflap. It should have an option to run glibc's _libc_freeres function that forces the C runtime library to free all of its memory [...] Good idea. (It should not take more than a dozen lines of code - a threshold

Re: gccgo: A gcc frontend for Go, a new programming language

Ian Lance Taylor i...@google.com writes: [...] Go, a new experimental systems programming language designed by a small group at Google. [...] The frontend is written in, yes, C++. [...] Neat. Are there any plans to have a front-end written in its own language (and use the current C++ one

outage 2009-12-12 weekend, gcc.gnu.org / sourceware / cygwin

Hi - Please be aware of an impending temporary outage machines hosting gcc.gnu.org, sourceware.org, sources.redhat.com, cygwin.com, and a few other sites. All email, web, ftp, cvs, git, etc. services will be off line while the machines are being moved between two colocation facilities this

Re: Git mirror needs a run of git gc

Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: Right now, each fresh clone needs to create a compressed pack, which takes quite a while. I ran git repack -a -d, HTH. - FChE

test listarch

Hi - This is a test for gcc.gnu.org's listarch for this mailing list, which has interrupted. - FChE

Re: Hash Function for switch statement

Jae Hyuk Kwak wrice...@gmail.com writes: [...] Is that true that current implementation of gcc on i386 optimizes switch statement with decision tree? I was expecting somebody who can confirm this. You can see for yourself by writing a variety of switch{} statements and observing the assembly

Re: State of the mercurial mirror

Thomas Capricelli or...@freehackers.org writes: The mercurial mirror of the gcc repository, at http://gcc.gnu.org/hg/gcc has been broken for months. and the contact listed there does not answer emails. Can somebody here at least remove those misleading pages..? If there is concensus

Re: State of the mercurial mirror

Thomas Capricelli or...@freehackers.org writes: The mercurial mirror of the gcc repository, at http://gcc.gnu.org/hg/gcc has been broken [...] Or rather, it has gotten stale. I started up update process that should, very very slowly, let it catch up with the present day. If that completes in

Re: Viewvc perms problem ?

Hi - Looking at the GCC viewvc, for example: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/branches/gcc-4_5-branch/ All the graphics and style information are missing [...] This was an unintended consequence of a viewvc rpm update. It's fixed now. - FChE

Re: GFDL/GPL issues

Basile Starynkevitch bas...@starynkevitch.net writes: [...] So what should I do? [...] c. change the licenses of the melt*texi files [I certainly won't do that without explicit approval] to something compatible. Perhaps the fact that I am the only contributor to these files might help.

Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK

Gabriel Dos Reis g...@integrable-solutions.net writes: [...] I do not think so, and I would not suggest that the use of C++ is an excuse do ditch the possibility of bootstrapping with anything other than GCC. Right. It would be good to enumerate any language/design constraints that other

Re: Scheduling x86 dispatch windows

Andi Kleen a...@firstfloor.org writes: [...] Yes but you can't easily pass data back, like accurate instruction lengths. Wouldn't it be too late by then? Or are you imagining having the compiler pass trial data to the assembler to create a feedback loop? - FChE

Re: Patch pinging

NightStrike nightstr...@gmail.com writes: [...] So who actually said no? The Frederic guy didn't like my fake-looking fake name, and wanted a real-looking-but-just-as-fake name, or he wouldn't create a account for me. In consultation with other overseers, I rejected your request. I did

Re: Crucial C++ inlining broken under -Os

Joern Rennecke amyl...@spamcop.net writes: [...] But if the function is very simple, the only reason to keep it would be if its address was taken somewhere, or if we tailcall it. ... or to make it available from gdb as an inferior call. - FChE

Re: Inserting profiling function calls

Michael Gong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know about inserting call at the basic block level, but I am quite sure inserting calls at the function level could be done by aspect-oriented-programming (AOP). [...] Another possibility, coming soon[1], is to use systemtap[2] probes: % stap

Re: mudflap vs bounds-checking

Christophe LYON [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the difference between the [bounds-checking and mudflap] systems? Mudflap is a tree-level rewriting pass amidst the optimizers that limits its attention to pointer dereference and addressable object lifetime events. It's upstream, having been

Re: How to enable Mudflap in gcc 4.x?

Deepen Mantri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] To enable libmudflap library, I am passing the --enable-libmudflap option in the gcc configure script But I get the following error during final gcc building: configure error: none of the known symbol names works [configure-target-libmudflap]

Re: How to enable Mudflap in gcc 4.x?

Hi - which means that libmudflap needs to be ported to sh-elf. How should I start the porting? Do you have any document related to such porting? [...] First thing is to get past that autoconf error. Check your linker script for the default entry point symbol's name, and give it to

Re: Libmudflap for sh-elf toolchain cannot access environment variable MUDFLAP_OPTIONS

Hi - It's probably easier to place a putenv(MUDFLAP_OPTIONS=blah) in your code, or inject it from the debugger. [...] We cannot place putenv(MUDFLAP_OPTIONS=..) in libmudflap's __mf_init() function existing in mf-runtime.c. Placing putenv(..) will limit the instrumented code's runtime

Re: a mudflap experiment on freebsd

Hi, Jim - A customer expressed interest in mudflap, so I tried to see if I could use it compile something large. [...] Thanks for giving it a try. For what it's worth, I've run entire gcc bootstraps on Linux with the instrumentation running (using BOOT_CFLAGS rather than CFLAGS). Each

Re: Question w.r.t. `'class Foo' has virtual functions but non-virtual destructor` warning.

Karel Gardas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] class Foo { public: virtual unsigned short iiop_version() const = 0; }; and when I compile it, GCC emits warning from subject, although this class is really abstract and will never be instantiated. [...] I guess GCC assumes that

Re: help with mudflap testsuite result analysis

mrs wrote: [...] The question is, how decent are the results and can you spot any systematic wrongs that appear and/or can you identify any non-portableness to darwin of mudflap? I started from 89 passes... :-) [...] Most of the FAILs are output pattern test failures, related to some

Re: Major bootstrap time regression on March 30

dnovillo wrote: [...] I rebooted the machine into a new kernel on 2005-03-31 (2.6.10-1.770_FC3). The slowdown coincided with the box being rebooted into the new kernel: [...] 2005-03-305,704 -- 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 2005-03-317,026 -- 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 [...] I'm

Re: Selective Mudflap

Jon Levell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to debug a large C application that (amongst other things) starts a JVM and uses Java's JDBC to connect to databases via JNI. Brave! If I use the sourceforge bounds checking patch I get a sensible list of errors (none from the JVM). I'd also

Re: Selective Mudflap

Hi - On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:55:27PM +0100, Jon Levell wrote: [...] Do these errors arise from malloc-type operations performed by the JVM? Or from your code's use of JVM-provided pointers? [...] The errors stem from inside the JVM. I presume when it is using pointers that the C

Forw: Question about mudflap

Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:20:54 -0500 From: Doug Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frank Ch. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Question about mudflap Hi, Not sure whether I should report this as a bug or not, because there might be something going on that I don't understand. What I'm wondering

Re: Question about mudflap

Hi - What I'm wondering is whether or not mudflap should instrument accesses to globals that it doesn't know the size of. In the following code: [...] printf(%d\n, global[3]); [...] Mudflap does not emit any __mf_check calls. It is probably kicking in an optimization that says that if

Re: GCC mailing list archive search omits results after May 2005

mrs wrote: I think we should remove all traces of any search that doesn't work. [...] We'll try to set up mnogosearch again on the machine. Please stand by. - FChE

Re: porting gcc/binutils

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The original intention was that CGEN would eventually be able to generate the MD file for GCC. When I last used CGEN 2 years ago, it was not able to do that at the time, and I suspect the problem is very complex for real machines [...] There exists a CGEN/SID/GCC

Re: Libmudflap and MIPS, does it work?

Hi - Has anyone ever gotten mudflap working on mips? I've never tried, but I think that mudflap isn't guaranteed to work for cross compilers. Frank? The compiler portion (tree-mudflap.c) should work about as well for crosses as for native builds. The part that poses porting problems is the

Re: mudflap extention request

Herman ten Brugge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Finally the question. Is it possible to add this extension to mudflap so the above problem is found here as well. It is likely possible. The first one (array embedded in struct, indexed by run-time expression) is tricky. There is IIRC no

Re: Revised GCC Runtime Library Exception

Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [...] Earlier Bradley Kuhn had indicated that this would be covered in the updated FAQ, but I don't really see it there. I sent him a separate message asking him to update it. Joe Buck wrote: [...] Since the FSF is the copyright owner, even if your reading is

Making CFLAGS=-g1 bigger but more useful

Hi - I'm working on a little patch that extends the data produced for the little-used (?) -g1 mode. Normally, this produces very little DWARF data (basically just function declaration locus, PC range, and basic backtrace-enabling data). Compared to normal -g (== -g2) mode, this is very small.

Re: VTA Linux kernel compilation comparison

Jakub Jelinek ja...@redhat.com writes: [...] With make allyesconfig; [...] .debug_info+.debug_loc+.debug_abbrev section sum grew by 1.9MB out of 422MB, I assume this was with var-tracking turned on (due to the toplev.c AUTODETECT_VALUE logic). [...] there locations weren't really

Re: Problem with static linking

Andrew Haley a...@redhat.com writes: [...] It makes heavy use of C++, STL, and boost and we'd like to (if possible) link *everything* statically. This means libc, libgcc, libstdc++, boost, libpthread, etc. [...] However, I really implore you: by all means link statically to everything

Re: how to use expand_builtin_alloca

Janboe Ye yuan-bo...@motorola.com writes: normally gcc will use expand_builtin_alloca to handle variable array. But mudflap will force this function to return immediately to invoke alloca explicit. Is there some way to still use expand_builtin_alloca without changing gcc source code? I

Re: Compiling programs licensed under the GPL version 2 with GCC 4.4

Robert Dewar de...@adacore.com writes: [...] b) you should ignore all such discussions, since they invariablly include lots of legal-sounding opinions from people who are not lawyers and don't know, and often have significant misconceptions. This is not about legal issues. It's about

Re: gcc git's performance problem Fwd: git gc expanding packed data?

Hi - Nicolas wrote: Anyone has an idea of the git version running on gcc.gnu.org? It is certainly buggy and needs fixing. It was 1.6.3.2 now it's 1.6.4, practically spring chickens. Anyway... To solve your problem, you simply need to run 'git gc' with the --prune=now [...] And BTW,

Re: GCC Status Report (2009-08-23)

mitch...@codesourcery.com (Mark Mitchell) writes: [...] In my opinion, the single hardest issue we face with respect to 4.5 is how to handle the VTA branch. [...] The problem it's setting out to solve is definitely important, but the scope of this particular solution frightens me. [...]

Re: [lto] Reader-writer compatibility?

Ryan Mansfield rmansfi...@qnx.com writes: The objects were created with rev 15 and being read using 151271. No, I can't reproduce the ICE using the same version. Thanks for confirming this is not expected to work. Is it the intent that this work properly in the future? It is not absurd

Re: LTO branch merged into trunk - trunk remains CLOSED

Diego Novillo dnovi...@google.com writes: The LTO branch has been merged into trunk at revision 152434. [...] Congrats. [...] That's it. The result should, in principle, execute faster but our IPA cost models are still not tweaked for LTO. We've seen speedups as well as slowdowns in

Re: Merging Apple's Objective-C 2.0 compiler changes

Jack Howarth howa...@bromo.med.uc.edu writes: [...] Alternatively, perhaps Apple could clarify their own license file to clearly indicate that they do not prohibit their GPLv2 code from being relicensed as GPLv3-only code. After all, this doesn't really change the licensing status of

Re: Discussion about merging Go frontend

Dave Korn dave.korn.cyg...@gmail.com writes: [...] From Ian's description, gccgo has the exact same requirements as LTO: be able to parse an object file, get a list of sections, and get raw binary access to the data contained within a named section. This is a problem which we already have

Re: Discussion about merging Go frontend

Hi - By the way, is there some necessity in accomplishing this by means of a linked library, as opposed to via a spawned objcopy process? Probably none in theory, but it certainly seems messy and likely to be slow in practice. Yes, maybe. Is there a reason that this would be desirable?

Re: RFC: Add zlib source to src CVS resposity

H.J. Lu hjl.to...@gmail.com writes: [...] By default, the in-tree zlib is used. If you configure binutis using --with-system-zlib, system zlib will be used. [...] Can you summarize what modern platforms lack a system zlib, and what justifies using the proposed in-tree copy by default? -

Re: A possible super feature to add to gcc

AspertameMan wrote: Back in the 1970's when we ran fortran on an IBM machine we had this really powerful command called CALL FDUMP that if inserted into a program would send the names and values of every variable, at the time of its call, to a printer or file. [...] This sounds like a

Re: gcc.gnu.org Bugzilla: Perl error Can't locate mro.pm in @INC

Tobias Burnus bur...@net-b.de writes: Can't locate mro.pm in @INC [...] This may be fixed now, with a hand-made dummy mro.pm file. - FChE

Re: temporarily giving up using Git for GCC MELT

Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org writes: [...] Do you use the http: or git: protocol for cloning? The official gcc git repo only supports the old git http: protocol, which is almost useless on slow/high-latency networks... gcc.gnu.org does talk git:// too. By new http, you are probably referring

Re: git mirror corrupted?

dnovillo wrote: In trying to clone the git mirror, I'm getting: $ git clone git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git Cloning into gcc... remote: Counting objects: 1191223, done. remote: aborting due to possible repository corruption on the remote side. [...] This may be because of cpu runtime limits

Re: git mirror corrupted?

H.J. Lu hjl.to...@gmail.com writes: [...] GCC git mirror hasn't been updated for more than 30 hours. git svn fetch was blocked on a index mismatch: ... error, apparently necessitating a full git-svn metadata rebuild. It should be done in a few more hours. Darn fragile thing, git-svn. - FChE

Re: On the toplevel configure and build system

dj wrote: [...] I see no reason to stop people from building in a combined source tree for multiple targets, and expecting it to work. Perhaps if we do move to git for all the /src stuff, we can have a /toplevel git repository with different branches suitable for each of your tastes of such

Re: [website, changes] (was: Re: warning about const multidimensional array as function parameter)

Hi - thank you, I tried creating an account, but it said: Unknown action newaccount. Frank, do you know what the problem might be? Yes, this facility was temporarily disabled, as a load-shedding measure. I'll turn it back on for a few hours. - FChE

Re: Offer of help with move to git

Joseph Myers jos...@codesourcery.com writes: [...] FWIW, Jason's own trial conversion with reposurgeon got up to at least 45GB memory consumption on a 32GB repository. (The host sourceware.org box has 72GB.) - FChE

Re: http access to ftp://gcc.gnu.org

Hi - > > [...] Please see http://gcc.gnu.org/ftp/ . > Got 403: Thanks, fixed. - FChE

http access to ftp://gcc.gnu.org

Hi - At the request of tbsaunders, we're experimenting with provinding http[s] access to parts of the ftp://gcc.gnu.org/ contents. Please see http://gcc.gnu.org/ftp/ . - FChE

Re: svn timeouts

pmatos wrote: Am I the only one regularly getting svn timeouts lately? svn: E210002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk' svn: E210002: Network connection closed unexpectedly Hard to be sure unless you can supply a timestamp so we can go log hunting.

Re: Repository for the conversion machinery

>> cagney = Andrew Cagney > cag...@gnu.org? Good point. The email identities of people change over time; forcing a single arbitrary one to label all contributions is at best imprecise and at worse a miscrediting. (This is one way in which the impersonal use...@gcc.gnu.org

Re: Repository for the conversion machinery

Hi - > [...] > >- rewrite history - use some totally arbitrary, and quickly outdated, > >internet identity > I think this is main reason why @gnu.org or @gmail.com style addresses > are preferred over employer addresses when there's > 1 address on file. That makes sense, but how many people

Re: gnu-gabi group

mark wrote: > [...] >> [...] >> >> Having a local gnu-gabi group on sourceware.org would be better IMHO. >> > +1 >> +1 > > Great. I'll ask overseers to create a mailinglist. [...] Done [1] [2]. If y'all need a wiki too, just ask. [1] gnu-g...@sourceware.org [2]

Re: Deprecating basic asm in a function - What now?

jwakely.gcc wrote: > [...] (When we switched Fedora to using GCC 6, with C++14 enabled by > default, dozens and dozens of C++ packages failed to compile, > because even in 2016 nobody had ever tried to compile them with > C++11 features enabled.) And one shouldn't blame those that choose to

Re: Repository for the conversion machinery

joseph wrote: > Thanks, here are further authors map additions for new committers. > [...] > avieira = Andre Vieira > [...] FWIW, I thought at one point the consensus was that the mailmap would expand only to $use...@gcc.gnu.org rather than

Re: Repository for the conversion machinery

Jason Merrill writes: > [...] gcc.gnu.org already refuses git connections fairly frequently > due to overloading [...] With the corresponding reduction in cpu load from svn users, plus the ready adjustability of those xinetd thresholds, please don't let that hold you back. -

Re: Who played with the GCC Bugzilla git repo?

Frédéric Buclin writes: > Someone played with the GCC Bugzilla git repo last week with no real reason: > Author: root > Date: Fri Oct 7 15:28:43 2016 + > snap-data > [...] That was little old me, with the reason being to conserve local changes with

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