[m-rev.] for post-commit review: a start on getting type repn info from .int files

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> 2021-07-20 16:29 GMT+10:00 "Zoltan Somogyi" <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com>:
>> 2021-07-20 16:22 GMT+10:00 "Peter Wang" <novalazy at gmail.com>:
>>> The failures occur when bootchecking with this in Mmake.stage.params:
>>> >     EXTRA_MCFLAGS=-O5 --intermod-opt
>>> > Zoltan, do you want to take a look at it?
>> 
>> I could have sworn I have got clear bootchecks with those options
>> several times since then with those parameters, but yes, I will take a look.
>
> My bootcheck with -O5 --intermod-opt in hlc.gc just finished, and had
> no unexpected test failures. Unless someone can tell me how to reproduce
> the problems on testing, I can't look into those problems.

Could the issue be related to the fact that on the test server, the
builds are bootstrapped from a source distribution?  (That seems unlikely,
but I can't think what else would be causing this -- like Zoltan, when
I tried -O5 --intermod-opt on my machine, I could not reproduce this.)

Julien.