EGCS 1.1.1 FYI

[Michael Meissner]

On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 02:06:46AM -0600, jeramy wrote:
> 
> Cygnus released 1.1.1 on Dec. 1 with the following PPC specific
> improvements.

Note, while we host the egcs machines (and provide a number of compiler
hackers), EGCS != Cygnus.  EGCS is netwide and has people from many different
organizations (including most of the developers from the FSF GCC, and many more
developers that were never part of the FSF).

> Fixed PPC/RS6000 LEGITIMIZE_ADDRESS macro and bug in conversion from
> unsigned ints to double precision floats. 
> Fixed handling of long longs for varargs/stdarg functions on the ppc. 

Note, this means any code that passes long long should have both the caller and
callee recompiled with the same compiler.

> Fixed code generation problems with gpr<->fpr copies for 64bit ppc. 

That doesn't affect PowerPC Linux right now, since the only 64-bit ppc target
is AIX based (there are a number of issues like gas/ld support, and machine
availability before it will matter to Linux/PPC).

> Makes sure target libraries build with -fPIC for PPC targets.
> 
> Good to see this much platform specific progress in a x.x.1 release. :)

-- 
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
meissner at cygnus.com,	617-354-5416 (office),	617-354-7161 (fax)

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