[llvm] r209638 - [PPC] Use alias symbols in address computation.

[Hal Finkel]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rafael Espíndola" <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
> To: "Hal Finkel" <hfinkel at anl.gov>
> Cc: "llvm-commits" <llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:48:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [llvm] r209638 - [PPC] Use alias symbols in address computation.
> 
> >> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=209638&view=rev
> >> Log:
> >> [PPC] Use alias symbols in address computation.
> >>
> >> This seems to match what gcc does for ppc and what every other
> >> llvm
> >> backend does.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this turns out not to be such a good idea... it
> > completely breaks self-hosting on ppc64/Linux (we can't even
> > compile a TableGen that doesn't segfault)). I've reverted this for
> > now.
> 
> Do you have a reduce testcase? If not I can try a bootstrap in
> gcc110.

I don't have one. If you could try a bootstrap, that would be great.

Thanks again,
Hal

> 
> Cheers,
> Rafael
> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory