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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Segmentation faults after gcc update
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:55:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120220085535.2246a727@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1329734220.13226.35.camel@bender>

Le Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:37:00 +0100,
Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> a ?crit :

> It turned out that Thomas guessed right. It seems that the iwmmxt
> optimizations are broken in gcc newer than 4.3. Changing the target to
> xscale fixed the problem. And the tests I have done so far seem to
> imply that the performance of code compiled with gcc 4.6 optimized
> for xscale is slightly better than the same code compiled with gcc
> 4.3 optimized for iwmmxt.

Ok.

> Not sure if this should somehow be handled in buildroot. But I thought
> I'd at least let you know on the mailing-list so that others can avoid
> running into the same problem.

If the problem is still there in the latest versions of gcc, it should
be reported as a bug to the gcc project.

Thanks for the investigation!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-20 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27  8:04 [Buildroot] Segmentation faults after gcc update Sven Neumann
2011-09-27 21:35 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-28  8:57   ` Sven Neumann
2011-09-28 14:44   ` Sven Neumann
2011-09-30  9:06     ` Sven Neumann
2011-09-30 19:59       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-30 20:35         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-02-20 10:37           ` Sven Neumann
2012-02-20 16:55             ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2011-10-04  9:20         ` Sven Neumann
2011-09-27 21:36 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2011-09-28  9:18   ` Sven Neumann

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