Re: ffmpeg 2.8.6-1 test failures on hppa

[Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>]

On 10.02.2016 16:26, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 2016-02-07 4:44 PM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> I don't know. Maybe this problem is related to the regression seen on mips [1].
>> Does using '-fno-expensive-optimizations' work around the problem?
> There is a GCC patch for the CRC error seen on hppa:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69714

Thanks a lot forwarding this upstream.

> It would be be useful to determine whether it also fixes the mips regression.  There is a good chance
> as the change corrects a problem that was introduced after the release of 5.3, and the optimization
> was only done when doing expensive-optimizations.  If it doesn't fix the mips regression, then a testcase
> is needed for mips.

I can confirm that this patch fixes the regression on mips, at least for the
testcase from #813858.

Best regards,
Andreas