Re: Compiling for ppc405 with crosstool 0.27 on cygwin seg. faults

[Daniel Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Martin Egholm Nielsen wrote:
> > > > Caution: I never added Java fixes for ppc405's erratum 77!
> > > > See http://kegel.com/xgcc3/ppc405erratum77.html and be very 
> > > > suspicious on threading problems on older ppc405 chips in java.
> > >
> > > Eeeww... Do you have an idea whether this has any effect on the 405EP?
> >
> > You need to go find the IBM Errata sheet for the chip in question.
> > It's at http://www-306.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/products/PowerPC_405EP_Embedded_Processor
> > I believe the same problem might be present there, renamed CPU_210.
>
> Well, the errata at that site doesn't contain a bug named CPU_210, nor anything
> similar to the problem in erratum 77.

Ah, right, I was looking at the current errata for PPC405CR, not EP.
So maybe you're safe.

> > The gcc bug report for this was http://gcc.gnu.org/PR7383
>
> Further, according to the final comment in gcc's bugtracking system, it
> should be fixed in gcc 3.3:
> "GCC 3.3 includes the fix when GCC is configured for PPC405."

Yes, but as I was saying, I never did test the java part of the fix.
- Dan

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