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Re: mozilla on alpha



On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Peter Maydell wrote:

> Further singlestepping indicates that gp is not trashed by
> the first destructor called by __do_global_dtors_aux, only
> by the second (global destructors keyed to xptiZipLoader::gCache ()).
> 
> Any ideas? (My alpha assembly is virtually nonexistent, and I 
> certainly have no idea what the calling convention says about 
> who should be preserving gp here...)

I'm compiling a patched gcc to see if it helps this.  In gcc CVS, there
have been quite a few changes related to when a ldgp is used/emitted.  I
hope that they work for this case :-)

C



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