Re: firefox: search box not working, some plugins not working

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:38:55AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > I have nb1 on amd64, but it works there.
> > Is your firefox compiled with clang?
> 
> Yes.

Well, the nb1 -> nb2 change is sparc64 (and the search box works fine with
nb2 on sparc64) only - so the compiler is the difference you are looking for.

There are some bits of compiler-special code (e.g. gcc < 4.7.something can
not inline some constructors, clang is explicitly forbidden to inline
some functions to help the garbage collector, ...) so this does not mean
it is a compiler problem right away. But is is not unlikely to be one as
well (I am chasing a gcc 4.8.3 sparc64 codegen bug currently in firefox, 
took me like two weeks to verify it is a compiler bug instead of undefined
behaviour in firefox code).

Martin