CVS MinGW (Crossed-)Native Compiler is Toast

Sat Sep 27 12:46:00 GMT 2003

Hi Ranjit,
(GCJ people: this is the last post on this subject I'll do here. I wanted to
follow up on this so people knew the outcome.)
>I think I have a faint idea of one of the things that seems to be
>going wrong.
>>Line 10300 of parse.y has this call:
>> list = lookup_method_invoke (0, identifier_wfl, type, identifier, args);
>>Upon entry into this function, some prologue code seems to be
>executed in gcc/gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm which trashes
>the first parameter, changing it from a 0 to garbage. It's a downward
>spiral from there.

The problem appears to be similar to this:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-06/msg00122.html
When I hack the Makefile to use -mno-stack-arg-probe, the problem
disappears.
This one definitely qualified as cruel and unusual punishment.
How should I follow up on this?
-- Mohan
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