From: Joe Buck <jbuck AT Synopsys DOT COM>
Message-Id: <199904092102.OAA13655@atrus.synopsys.com>
Subject: Re: pgcc-1.1.1 glibc-2.1.1 strptime.c forbidden register
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 99 14:02:27 PDT
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>   > strptime.c: In function `strptime_internal':
>   > strptime.c:818: fixed or forbidden register 3 (bx) was spilled for class 
>   > GENERAL_REGS.

> There's an asm in that code that requires 6 registers to satisfy.  However,
> when compiling with -fPIC the compiler is only allowed to allocate 5 registers.

Perhaps this condition should be detected directly?  (Count the # of
registers needed, if it exceeds the number available, issue a message
saying that).