Re: [linuxsh-shmedia-dev] Re: SH5 gcc bug

[stephen c. <ste...@st...>]

Hi Kaz, 

kk...@rr... wrote:
> 
> Steve Woodford <sc...@ne...> wrote:
> > At this point, I have it running natively under NetBSD/sh5 and have been
> > trying to get shared libraries working (don't ask; they're needed for
> > something else). In the course of this, I found a PIC bug. This may or
> > may not be a problem for a cross-sh5 compiler from the same sources; I
> > went straight in at the deep end and build it natively (bootstrapped using
> > an earlier native sh5 toolchain, before self-hosting it). Someone else can
> > verify if the cross compiler is similarly afflicted.
> 
> I've tested your testcase with my cross compilers
>   GCC: (GNU) 2.97-sh5-010522
>   GCC: (GNU) 3.4 20021221 (experimental)
> and found no segfaults. I didn't it for the latest Barcelona toolchain
> yet because I couldn't access ftp.uk.superh.com.

IIRC, netbsd/sh5 uses the 64-bit ABI ... did you test using the netbsd
configuration or the appropriate 64-bit ABI option?

Even if gcc is okay, I suspect binutils may be a problem, because I don't
think support for 64-bit SH-5 shared libraries ever got added to bfd.

Steve.