Re: GCC strength reduction bug

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> See the message below.  It seems that the old a.out compiler in the
> stable tree has this problem.  What are we going to do about it ?

Since I'd already applied the patch for this bug to the ELF version, I
went ahead and applied it to the two a.out versions as well.

David
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Date: 08 Jan 96 19:50 UT
Source: gcc
Binary: gcc 
Version: 2.6.3-5
Description: 
 gcc: The GNU C compiler.
Priority: High
Changes: 
 Applied Joern Rennecke's patch to disable an overly aggressive
 loop optimization.  Avoiding this bug previously required using
 -fno-strength-reduce option whenever -O2 or higher was used.
Files:
 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     src       6523619 Jan  8 13:49 gcc-2.6.3-5.tar.gz
 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     src          7038 Jan  8 13:50 gcc-2.6.3-5.diff.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      2208091 Jan  8 13:46 gcc-2.6.3-5.deb
 14cfa14fe4158e77ced22dc04e8c9692  gcc-2.6.3-5.tar.gz
 9f9fe9c3d861fe6c7b319aa63093dba1  gcc-2.6.3-5.diff.gz
 e4081ac89774fb8aee6b6d43751a3648  gcc-2.6.3-5.deb

Date: 08 Jan 96 19:23 UT
Source: aout-gcc
Binary: aout-gcc 
Version: 2.6.3-12
Description: 
 aout-gcc: The GNU C compiler (a.out compatibility version).
Priority: High
Changes: 
 Applied Joern Rennecke's patch to disable an overly aggressive
 loop optimization.  Avoiding this bug previously required using
 -fno-strength-reduce option whenever -O2 or higher was used.
Files:
 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     src       6524259 Jan  8 12:33 aout-gcc-2.6.3-12.tar.gz
 -rw-rw-r--   1 root     src          7126 Jan  8 12:35 aout-gcc-2.6.3-12.diff.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1768969 Jan  8 12:29 aout-gcc-2.6.3-12.deb
 98b7aba3121970cd6f3e76299a42abef  aout-gcc-2.6.3-12.tar.gz
 1fe751f20ed4aec06837a22cc7769f79  aout-gcc-2.6.3-12.diff.gz
 a6bc80978158d189496a88b8963f580d  aout-gcc-2.6.3-12.deb