[rock-devel] bc built with gcc4 dumps core

[Benjamin Schieder]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Clifford Wolf wrote:
> As a matter of a fact we will never be able to even find a small portion of
> what is going wrong when using a broken compiler optimization. So the
> packages we do mark with such NOOPT flags would always be just the tip of
> the iceberg and in the end we ship distributions full of broken bytecode.
> 
> Instead we should start creating a detailed documentation of broken
> compiler optimizations and create testcases from what we find and confront
> the GCC team with our results.

Shouldn't be much of a problem:
Exhibit a)
Build the LVP target for Pentium 4 and wait for groff to segfault on xorg.
Exhibit b)
Build Mozilla for Pentium 4 and watch it break during build.
Exhibit c)
Build gtk+ or whatever provides scrollbar functionality to gqview and gimp for
Pentium M and try to scroll and watch the program segfault.

Where should I send these and which output do those guys want?

Greetings,
	Benjamin

- --
The Nethack IdleRPG! Idle to your favorite Nethack messages!
http://pallas.crash-override.net/nethackidle/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFDfgfir0OTeImXvg8RAk7jAJ9e4QmFbe/aqI5Jpbx+aP9IJ2KPsgCeOgyU
N/uH6HztHktbOndx5hqBZbI=
=swVg
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----