Re: pkg/45278: bootstrap fails in libfetch NetBSD -current (gcc4.5)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45278; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        kuehro%gmx.de@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/45278: bootstrap fails in libfetch NetBSD -current (gcc4.5)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:06:13 +0200

 On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 06:45:02PM +0000, Kai-Uwe Eckhardt wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/45278; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Kai-Uwe Eckhardt" <kuehro%gmx.de@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/45278: bootstrap fails in libfetch NetBSD -current (gcc4.5)
 > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:42:29 +0200
 > 
 >  Hallo,
 >  
 >  >  This is perfectly legal. The GCC behavior is a huge painful bug.
 >  
 >  I agree on gcc is huge, gcc is painful and gcc is full of bugs. And
 >  yes the code might be perfectly legal. But even if not, we can't change
 >  half of the network code. So let us try with -fno-strict-aliasing on 
 >  ftp.c then. Other suggestions besides turning to another compiler ? ;-) 
 
 *sigh* What I am telling you is that this is not about strict aliasing.
 
 Joerg