[LinuxBIOS] RomCC chews forever (or seemingly forever)

[San Mehat]

Hey all,

I've been making some modifications to the ck804 early smbus code and i'm
noticin that romcc appears to be chewing seemingly forever.
Any ideas on how to diagnose this?

[Li-Ta Lo]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 10:14 -0700, San Mehat wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've been making some modifications to the ck804 early smbus code and
> i'm noticin that romcc appears to be chewing seemingly forever.
> Any ideas on how to diagnose this?

I think you are running out of registers. If wait long enough, ROMCC 
will complain not enough registers.

[San Mehat]

Thanks for the quick response..

it looks like if you forget to specify a return value the compile can hang
forever (ie > 1 hour before i gave up).

so something like this:

static int blah(int foo, int bar)
{
int baz = 10

while (baz)
{
baz--
if (something_else())
return 1;
}
// ACK!.. no return here
}

seems to cause things to break.

On 9/14/05, Li-Ta Lo  wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 10:14 -0700, San Mehat wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I've been making some modifications to the ck804 early smbus code and
> > i'm noticin that romcc appears to be chewing seemingly forever.
> > Any ideas on how to diagnose this?
>
> I think you are running out of registers. If wait long enough, ROMCC
> will complain not enough registers.