Re: [Tinycc-devel] mob regression - compiling gawk

[Aharon Robbins]

I wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Aharon Robbins wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > The current mob on x86_64 no longer compiles gawk correctly. The
> > generated executable does a stunning job of failing the test suite,
> > dumping core multiple times.
> >
> >     wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-4.1.3.tar.gz # latest release
> >     tar -xpvzf gawk-4.1.3.tar.gz
> >     ./configure CC=tcc && make
> >     make check              # KABOOM!
> >
> > I'm using a version from mid-May and that works fine, so something
> > broke in the past 6 or 7 weeks.
> >
> > Can someone look into this please?

Michael says:

> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 19:42:46 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Michael Matz <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Tinycc-devel] mob regression - compiling gawk
>
> Hi,
>
>
> It's 4e04f67c94c9, "fix-mixed-struct (patch by Pip Cet)" which breaks it. 
> It changes argument passing on x86-64 in a significant way, and obviously 
> there's a glitch in it.  Haven't analyzed further yet.

Thanks for this.

It'd be nice to have it working again.

Thanks,

Arnold