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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 2002 18:39:01 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject:   Re: ev4/5/6 issue ? 
Message-ID:  <57358.1037036341@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:23:15 EST." <XFMail.20021111122315.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <XFMail.20021111122315.jhb@FreeBSD.org>, John Baldwin writes:
>
>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?

Could be, but I tried to build some binaries on beast to recover
and was bitten by beast generating ev6 as default.

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