#7814: panic in PPC NCG --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: heisenbug | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: Compiler Version: 7.7 | Keywords: Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: powerpc Failure: Building GHC failed | Blockedby: Blocking: | Related: --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- I get panics in the NCG PPC register allocator while compiling these files: rts_dist_HC rts/dist/build/StgStdThunks.dyn_o rts_dist_HC rts/dist/build/StgStdThunks.thr_dyn_o rts_dist_HC rts/dist/build/StgStdThunks.l_dyn_o rts_dist_HC rts/dist/build/StgStdThunks.thr_l_dyn_o HC [stage 1] libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Classes.o HC [stage 1] libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/CString.o HC [stage 1] libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Debug.o The panic message is like this: {{{ ghc-stage1: panic! (the 'impossible' happened) (GHC version 7.7.20130405 for powerpc-montavista-linux): allocateRegsAndSpill: Cannot read from uninitialized register %vI_nff }}} This makes the bootstapping of PPC cross compiler, ehm, delicate. There is a comment in compiler/nativeGen/RegAlloc/Linear/Main.hs:756 Nothing | reading -> pprPanic "allocateRegsAndSpill: Cannot read from uninitialized register" (ppr r) -- NOTE: if the input to the NCG contains some -- unreachable blocks with junk code, this panic -- might be triggered. Make sure you only feed -- sensible code into the NCG. In CmmPipeline we -- call removeUnreachableBlocks at the end for this -- reason. So we have a 'junk code' issue here. Any hints how I can debug this? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7814 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler