Re: Compiler still buggy
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
> I tried today to compile Tcl on Alpha. While Tcl does have numerous 64-bit
> cleanliness issues, compiling with -O2 causes the irc client zircon, which I
> maintain, to report "network is unreachable" whenever connecting to any
> server. Compiling with -O0 makes Zircon mostly work on Alpha. Zircon is
> pure Tcl code, BTW.
>
> This indicates to me that we still have insidious compiler bugs. And I had
> hoped that I could forever abolish nasty hacks to use -O0 instead of -O2.
The current egcs also miscompiles newer xemacs betas. Several people
have confirmed that. 1.0.3a works. Couldn't someone just package that
one up as default compiler? It seems to be far more stable.
Falk
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