Subject: Re: Build Failure
To: None <port-hp700@NetBSD.org>
From: Paul Weissmann <paul@doorslam.net>
List: port-hp700
Date: 06/07/2004 15:16:38
Jochen Kunz [jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de] wrote:
> Zach Lowry <zach@zachlowry.net> wrote:
[...] 
> > If this is truly a GCC bug, how have the OpenBSD folks gotten around
> > this? Is this due to toolchain version differences?
> Last time I looked at OpenBSD they still used GCC 2.95 where we use
> 3.3.3. 

OpenBSD/hppa switched to GCC 3.3 as of lately, too.

> The GCC bugs show up at compilation, not at runtime. There are two bugs:

GCC bugs very well can show up at run time, ie. when these bugs lead
GCC to produce incorrect code (as in m88k vs. gcc 2.95).


        - paul

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