Re: lib/47120: libc alloca(3) seems to fail

[Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso <sdaoden%gmail.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/47120; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steffen "Daode" Nurpmeso <sdaoden%gmail.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, lib-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/47120: libc alloca(3) seems to fail
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:44:58 +0200

 christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
 
  || Run "$ make DESTDIR=bad CFLAGS='-O2 -std=c89' install; make distclean; \
  |. make DESTDIR=good CFLAGS='-O3 -std=c89' install".
  || 
  || Run "$ MAILRC=/dev/null {bad,good}/usr/local/bin/s-nail -nf" and simply \
  |. "p" the mail of the following minimal mailbox (any mail did in tests \
  |. though):
  | 
  | Looks like a compiler bug. Only affecting i386. -O0 -O2 breaks -O3 works.
  | On the other hand the code needs to be fixed to pass:
  | -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -Wextra -Wswitch \
  |-Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wcast-qual
  | 
  | and it does not.
 
 And suddenly,
 -pedantic is not half the -pedantic it used to be...
 there's a shadow hanging over me...
 oh, i can no longer believe..
 in -pedanticI
 
  | christos
 
 --steffen