* bugs.texi: Various updates.

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Mon Mar 23 11:58:43 1998 Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>
* bugs.texi: Various updates.
* com.c (ffecom_tree_canonize_ptr_): Fix up spacing a bit.
Mon Mar 16 21:20:35 1998 Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>

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@ -25,21 +25,6 @@ configure, port, build, and install @code{g77},
@ref{Problems Installing}.
@itemize @bullet
@cindex Alpha
@cindex -O2
@item
@code{g77}'s version of @code{gcc}, and probably @code{g77}
itself, cannot be reliably used with the @samp{-O2} option
(or higher) on Digital Semiconductor Alpha AXP machines.
The problem is most immediately noticed in differences
discovered by @kbd{make compare} following a bootstrap
build using @samp{-O2}.
It also manifests itself as a failure to compile
@samp{DATA} statements such as @samp{DATA R/7./} correctly;
in this case, @samp{R} might be initialized to @samp{4.0}.
Until this bug is fixed, use only @samp{-O1} or no optimization.
@item
Something about @code{g77}'s straightforward handling of
label references and definitions sometimes prevents the GBE
@ -226,19 +211,4 @@ problem by not using the back end's support for @code{COMPLEX}.
The new option @samp{-fno-emulate-complex} avoids the work-around,
reverting to using the same ``broken'' mechanism as that used
by versions of @code{g77} prior to 0.5.20.
@cindex ELF support
@cindex support, ELF
@cindex -fPIC option
@cindex options, -fPIC
@item
There seem to be some problems with passing constants, and perhaps
general expressions (other than simple variables/arrays), to procedures
when compiling on some systems (such as i386) with @samp{-fPIC}, as in
when compiling for ELF targets.
The symptom is that the assembler complains about invalid opcodes.
This bug is in the gcc back end,
and it apparently occurs only when
compiling sufficiently complicated functions @emph{without} the
@samp{-O} option.
@end itemize