[MinGW-dvlpr] Apparent _alloca bug in MinGW gcj

[Mohan E. <gnu...@th...>]

Danny,

Would you be able to comment on my post to the gcj java
mailing list?:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-09/msg00336.html

This is from a MinGW 3.4 CVS build without any
MinGW-local patches.

I've been able to work around this by building with
-mno-stack-arg-probe, but I doubt this is the right
thing to do. In particular, jar.exe suddenly stopped
working, though I don't know if this is related. (Haven't
had time to investigate.) Since there are no MinGW-local patches
for the 3.4 tree, yet, I don't know if this _alloca issue
has been fixed with the 3.3 local patches. And
unfortunately, I can't use a 3.3 (Linux,MinGW)
cross to build a 3.4 native MinGW compiler.

So I guess what I'm asking is:

- Do you know if the fix for this _alloca bug
  supposed to be fixed in GCC CVS, the MinGW-local
  patches, or not at all?

- If the answer is "in the MinGW-local patches",
  then isn't the stability of any of my interim
  builds (i.e. 3.4) that don't incorporate any
  MinGW-local patches seriously compromised?

- Do you want me to follow up on this in any way?

Thanks.

-- Mohan
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