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Subject: Bug in gcc-1.31 on SysV386
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Date: 24 Nov 88 01:38:37 GMT
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I just finished compiling gcc-1.31 on my system!! Yeah!! (Thank you,
FSF!).

My system is: Altos 1000 running Unix System 5.3.1b. It's a
386 box.

I made the stage1 and stage2 compilers. Everything was fine.
Running the compare on the object files, I always get:

c-convert.o stage2/c-convert.o differ: char 5, line 1
version.o stage2/version.o differ: char 5, line 1
....
ad nauseam...

That is, every object file differs at char 5, line 1.

Additionally, for each object file xyzzy.o, xyzzy.o and stage2/xyzzy.o
are the same size.

So I did:

cp version.c ho.c
stage2/gcc -g -O -Bstage2/ -c ho.c
mv ho.o ho.o.orig
stage2/gcc -g -O -Bstage2/ -c ho.c
cmp ho.o ho.o.orig
ho.o ho.o.orig differ: char 5, line 1

Examining ho.o and ho.o.orig, the *only* place they differ is character
5, which seems to be set to a random value at each compilation (with the
same compiler!).

Any ideas??? It seems that perhaps some static memory is not getting
correctly initialized...

			---Kayvan

P.S. The generated gcc seems to work just fine.