[Patch] linuxppc gnuplot segfaults in save

[Franz Sirl]

At 08:54 15.04.99 , Martin Costabel wrote:
>> > Or could someone find out what's wrong with the fprintf function in
>> > LinuPPC? Note that this is not specific for one version of glibc. I
>> > tried it on several from glibc-961212 to glibc-2.1.1-3a. Same result.
>>
>> It failed under the old libs?
>
>Yes, I compiled gnuplot-3.7 under glibc-961212 (rev 1o, IIRC), and the
>result was the same. I managed to track the problem down to the fprintf
>call, but I don't know enough C and glibc to go any further.

The problem could be egcs, there's a known varargs bug on PPC, which 
happens as soon you have more than 8-10 args. There's a testcase for this 
in the egcs testsuite, gcc.c-torture/execute/980608-1.c, which still fails 
in the development sources. I hope this will be resolved for egcs-1.2 if 
the rewrite of the function epilogue/prologue to use RTL makes it in time...

Franz.


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