From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.pangeatech.com (pxofc151-phx1.pangeatech.com [63.110.32.151]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAB0482A for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:35:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from [65.192.22.133] by mail.pangeatech.com (NTMail 7.00.0018/NU8172.00.e2123c13) with ESMTP id luoxlaaa for parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 11:35:07 -0700 Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 10:35:24 -0800 From: Randolph Chung To: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org Message-ID: <20020309183524.GC628@tausq.org> Reply-To: Randolph Chung Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] FYI: state of toolchain for Debian woody release Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Just thought I'd post a quick note about some of the things happening recently: With many thanks to Dave Anglin and the investigation work by Carlos O'Donell, we've finally fixed the bug in gcc-3.0 that affected passing floating point arguments in indirect calls. The new compilers are now in the Debian archive, and we are slowly starting to rebuild some of the affected packages. (gs and python2.1 were the ones I knew about offhand, and they are now in the incoming queue). If you know of any other Debian packages you use that might be affected by this bug, let us know and we'll rebuild it. There are still some known problems with the compilers, most notably the problems with fixups that aren't able to reach their targets and thus requiring compilation with -ffunction-section. I have one patch from Dave that fixes this in some cases, but as I understand it the general problem is more involved and might not get fixed till post-woody. gdb also seems to be rather broken on hppa at the moment. Single stepping doesn't always (doesn't usually) work, and there's a problem with recognizing core files. If anyone has time to look into these and submit patches, that'll be great! randolph -- @..@ http://www.TauSq.org/ (----) ( >__< ) ^^ ~~ ^^