bad compiler generated code?

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sat Jun 19 07:17:11 GMT 2004


On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:24:12PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 18:57, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:48:08PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> > > I'm recompiling firefox right now and I get a whole bunch of the
> > > following:
> > > 
> > > {standard input}:766: Warning: indirect jmp without `*'
> > > {standard input}:816: Warning: indirect jmp without `*'
> > ...
> > > this happens on quite a number of C++ source files.  Looks like the
> > > compiler is generating some bad assembly.
> > 
> > This is not a useful bug report.  Can you provide the preprocesed C file?
> > Or at least provide command line(s) invocation that produces this?
..
> This has been fixed in the cvs version of gcc and involves the following patch:
> *** contrib/gcc/config/i386/i386.c.orig Thu Jun 17 18:20:11 2004

Thanks for tracking this down!

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)

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     send patches as an attachment if needed in the future.


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