[Bug debug/35065] [4.3 Regression] infinite loop while compiling VLC media player in vt_find_locations
------- Comment #6 from rguenther at suse dot de 2008-02-12 15:03 -------
Subject: Re: [4.3 Regression] infinite loop while compiling
VLC media player in vt_find_locations
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, zadeck at naturalbridge dot com wrote:
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> ------- Comment #5 from zadeck at naturalbridge dot com 2008-02-12 14:56 -------
> Richi,
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> I looked at this code once but I really do not know this code at all and really
> do not want to learn it. It will take a fair amount of time to try to figure
> out what the underlying dataflow problem is and then figure out how to modify
> it so that it is strictly monotonic (i.e. guaranteed to converge).
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> However, given that this is just improving debugging information, it should be
> possible to just hack a count of the number of iterations and just stop after
> 20, i.e the way that flow used to do it.
>
> If this is a blocker, this is what I would do to get the release out of the
> door.
Matz has analyzed this bug already and a fix is in his mind.
Richard.
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