SWI PSR corruption

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed May 11 23:52:23 BST 2005


In message <a82d98694d.christian at venice.lab>
          Christian Ludlam <chris at recoil.org> wrote:

> On 7 May Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> > In message <9324bf624d.christian at venice.lab>
> >           Christian Ludlam <chris at recoil.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > When you build an application targeting 32 bit OSs, it seems you MUST use
> > > the -zpq512 compiler switch to tell the compiler that inline SWI calls
> > > corrupt the PSR (why this isn't the default I don't know).
> > 
> > This bug appears to be fixed in the newly released 5.61 compiler.
> 
> That's good news, and thanks to Castle/Tematic/Kevin, but it doesn't help me
> nor probably many other OSLib users.
> 
> I still think it would be a good idea to have a release note mentioning the
> issue, because as it stands OSLib won't work with these versions of the
> compiler (around 5.20 to 5.60 roughly?).

I'm only aware of it causing a problem with the 5.57 compiler. I was
using it fine up until then.

Tom

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