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From: trq@MOOSE.CITA.UTORONTO.CA (Tom Quinn)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: bug in sparc gcc 1.31
Message-ID: <8812021502.AA29471@moose.cita.utoronto.ca>
Date: 2 Dec 88 15:02:05 GMT
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Gcc compiles the following code into assembly that will cause a data
misalignment signal.  This gcc version 1.31 on a sun4/110 running
SunOS 4.0.

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The compile:
gcc -S -g -v  -sun4 -c  Convert.c
gcc version 1.31
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -v -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUC__ -Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix Convert.c /tmp/cca17790.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.31
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cc1 /tmp/cca17790.cpp -quiet -dumpbase Convert.c -g -version -o Convert.s
GNU C version 1.31 (sparc) compiled by GNU C version 1.31.

The offending assembler:
.stabn 68,0,43,LM11
LM11:
	ld [%fp+84],%o0
	ldd [%l1+28],%l4	<> 2) + from->size + *((char *) from->addr);
    if (from->size > 1) hash += ((char *) from->addr)[1];
    for (p = cacheHashTable[hash & 255 ]; p != 0 ; p = p->next) {
	if ((p->hash == hash)
	 && (p->converter == converter)
	 && (p->from.size == from->size)
         && (p->num_args == num_args)) {
	    for (i = 0; i < num_args; i++) {
		if (   p->args[i].size != args[i].size ) {
		    break;
		}
	    }
	    if (i == num_args) {	 
		(*to) = p->to;
		return;
	    }
	}
    }
    (*to).size = 0;
    (*to).addr = 0 ;
    (*converter)(args, &num_args, from, to);
    CacheEnter(converter, args, num_args, from, to, hash);
}