Subject: Re: optimizer bug?
To: Danny Thomas <D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/03/1999 17:25:29
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Danny Thomas wrote:

> Could be related to PR7066 and it might be worthwhile for people to try
> this on platforms other than x86. It doesn't surprise me that crypto
> packages are usful in ferreting out some classes of compiler bugs - if only
> because the compiled code is run through a battery of tests.

There's a section of code in ssleay that won't compile on mac68k with
any optimization at all. See pr7152. It's evidently part of some big
number library. I don't understand it, let alone what's wrong with it.