Bug#378599: [m68k] gcc-4.1 -O2 optimization problem

[Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>]

tags 378599 + moreinfo
thanks

Stephen R Marenka <stephen@marenka.net> writes:

> We now have about sixteen packages that end up with a segfault or an
> illegal instruction. I haven't tried recompiling all these to verify that 
> this is the same problem, but I will if it will help.
>
> The problem is I have no idea how to isolate this bug.

Select the most minimal package where the problem is reproducible. Try
to compile single .c files with -O0 to identify the miscompiled file.
Split the miscompiled file by function to idenify the miscompiled
function. Make a stand-alone testcase involving only this function.

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	Falk