Yes.. What Gabe said. With gcc 4.5 (version zizzer now runs) I cannot find a version of the repository that passes sparc boot. I'm pretty sure it's an annoying compiler issue, but there are some annoyances is figuring out where to look at Gabe points out. If you're stats changes work on everything else, I'm happy to see them committed while this issue goes on in the background.
Thanks, Ali Sent from my ARM powered device On Sep 25, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote: > We (Ali and I) have each looked at that before, and we think it depends > on the compiler version. Something changes when you have a new enough > gcc and then the behavior of SPARC changes. I think the new behavior is > broken and the old behavior is correct, but I'd have to look at it > again. I haven't looked into it farther than that yet because I'd want > to tracediff between versions built with different compilers. Since they > would need to find different versions of libraries and can't just run > from the same command line, it's logistically annoying. > > Gabe > > On 09/25/11 09:52, nathan binkert wrote: >> I'm trying to get my python stats changes into the tree, but it >> appears that one of the regression tests no longer works (zizzer >> agrees with me): >> >> SPARC_FS/tests/opt/long/80.solaris-boot/sparc/solaris/t1000-simple-atomic >> >> >> Gabe, I think you're the only one that's been messing with SPARC. Can >> you take a look? >> >> Nate >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
