From: George Koehler <kernigh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: devel/gas: update to 2.45
To: Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org, pascal@stumpf.co
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2025 22:33:37 -0400

On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:37:20 +0200
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll run build on mips64 but I have no idea how long does it take.
> And it hasn't got numpy. So, just build two gcc. Yeah.

I did a powerpc build, with gas-2.45, numpy, and all their
dependencies.  (It took about 18 hours on a dual G5 at 2.0 GHz.)

I discovered that "make test" in numpy crashes quickly on powerpc.
The cause is clang bug 56023 "PowerPC ABI incompatibility with GNU on
complex arguments", SIGSEGV as npy_csqrtf compiled by gcc calls
csqrtf(3) compiled by clang.  (Our fortran module changes numpy's
C compiler to gcc.)

gas-2.45 didn't break numpy and looks good on powerpc.

I will probably not try gas-2.45 on powerpc64 before you commit it.
--gkoehler