Re: EGCS 1.1.1 FYI

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@cygnus.com,	617-354-5416 (office),	617-354-7161 (fax)

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