Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:20:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ev4/5/6 issue ? Message-ID: <XFMail.20021111132013.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021111190224.B50999@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 11-Nov-2002 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:23:15PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> >> On 11-Nov-2002 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> > In message <15823.51765.171947.796322@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin >> > writes: >> > >> >>Your initial assertion that this might be happening because the >> >>libraries are built for ev6 on beast could be true. Can you verify >> >>that that 12001f4e4 is indeed inside a library function using nm? >> > >> > Well, GDB said that much already. >> > >> >>That doesn't solve the initial problem of why your make was busted, >> >>though. If its in the libs, then your libs are likely busted too. >> >>Perhaps you'll also need to build a libc on beast, explicitly >> >>setting your cpuflags to ev4. Or perhaps the compiler is emitting >> >>FIX instructions when it should not. >> > >> > I think ev4 should be the default on beast. >> >> This release wasn't built on beast. It was built on a DS20 (which >> is an EV6). However, it should be built with '-mcpu=ev4 -mtune=ev6' >> so it should not be using any !ev4 instructions. Perhaps -mtune >> is broken? >> >> Hmm, actually, the whole release was compiled with > > Is this 4.7R we are talking about? > >> '-mcpu=ev5 -mtune=ev5'. I do know that on alpha gcc "adjusts" itself >> to whatever CPU it is built on, so maybe because the gcc in the release >> make world was built on an EV6 it thinks it can emit EV6 instructions? > > I tested 4.7-RCs on EV4 machines (AS200, AS500, PC64) without incident. > > Poul: what machine did you have? /me has a secret cache of Alpha CPUs > here.. :-P No, this is a 5.0 snapshot. Compiled on the same exact machine as 4.7, but under -current rathern than under -stable. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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