Re: Weird things happen with glibc-2.3.1 compiled with gcc-3.2.3 for cris

[Dan Kegel]

Uwe Reimann wrote:
> I am trying to compile glibc-2.3.1 with gcc-3.2.3 for the cris target 
> (cris-axis-linux-gnu). After adding some patches which makes the cris 
> port export register_frame_info and the like correctly, i was able to 
> compile it. However, something went wrong. ls -l showed huge file sizes. 
> Further investigation showed, that the lower 32 bits of the file size 
> are swapped with the higher 32 bits. For example: /etc/rpc, which should 
> be 1615 bytes (0x64F) is displayed as 6936372183040 bytes (0x64F00000000).
>
> This doesn't neccessarily need to be an error in glibc; it could as well 
> be the kernel (2.4.19). Could someone point me into the right direction 
> to fix that, i.E. what files could be responsible for such misbehavior?

Have you tried running the gcc and glibc regression tests
on a known good cris system?  (Possibly remotely?)

It seems challenging to set up those tests for remote
execution.  I'm trying that myself, will post anything
I learn to the crossgcc mailing list.
- Dan