-fvia-C/asm mangler broken on registerised powerpc-linux build

[kgardas]

Hello, I've build 7.0.1 on powerpc-linux platform, but a lot (if not all) tests compiled with -fvia-C fails with:

Prologue junk?: 	.type	s166_ret, @function
s166_ret:
 # 27 "/tmp/ghc17899_0/ghc17899_0.hc" 1

[igloo]

Registerised PPC/Linux isn't a supported platform, I'm afraid.

Note too that registerised -fvia-C is deprecated, so if anyone wishes to work on fixing registerised PPC/Linux you'll need to add a native code generator instead.

[kgardas]

Ian, I completely do not understand your comment. First of all, I agree with your closing/will not fix since I put it here just for the reference. On the other hand IMHO powerpc-linux registerised build is using PPC NCG successfully and on by default:

$ uname -a
Linux gcc40 2.6.26-2-powerpc64 #1 SMP Thu May 13 07:29:31 UTC 2010 ppc64 GNU/Linux
$ pwd
/home/kgardas/src/ghc-7.0.1/testsuite/tests/ghc-regress/codeGen/should_run
$ ../../../../../inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -S cgrun001.hs 
$ grep "ident" cgrun001.s
.ident "GHC 7.0.1"
$ 

[igloo]

Oh, if there is already a working PPC/Linux NCG then that's great!