Bug#356896: FTBFS with GCC 4.1: test suite failure
Martin Michlmayr writes:
> * Martin Buck <m@rtin-buck.de> [2006-03-20 10:03]:
> > I would have thought that a compiler that miscompiles trivial for loops and
> > thus inserts bugs in lots of programs compiled with it is unsuitable for
> > release, i.e. severity serious.
>
> I don't know... I compiled >5000 packages and none showed a problem.
> Then again, most of them probably don't have a test suite as good as
> your package (or a test suite at all); so they might compile and be
> broken.
it appears that these loops are not that "trivial" ;-) Current
practice is to consider these reports as non RC, if there's a
workaround available, which currently is (use -fno-tree-loop-optimize),
although it's arguable with wrong-code class bugs.
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