Re: irssi: Error detected by libpthread: Invalid mutex.

[Jonathan Schleifer <js-pkgsrc-users%webkeks.org@localhost>]

Am 27.10.2008 um 18:14 schrieb Christian Biere:

> Out of curiosity, why are you using -fwrapv? The GCC manpage is highly
> misleading in this regard. This is no optimization flag. I would think
> that -fstack-protector-all implies you value security highly. However,
> code that requires -fwrapv is so broken and ignorant of any standards
> that no amount of stack overflow checking could ever repair it. I'll
> assure anyone that code relying on -fwrapv is ripe with other bugs of
> all kinds anyway.

Without -frwapv, gcc 4 decides to optimize away some checks for  
integer overflows.

> Regarding your problem, read pthread(3) as the message tells you.  
> It'll
> show you a workaround for broken software like this. Nonetheless, you
> should consider filing a bug report to the developers of irssi,  
> assuming
> this isn't a bug in one the used libraries.

Well, I wanted to know first if others experience the same problem  
before I create a PR :).

--
Jonathan

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