Subject: Re: Optimisations break software?
To: John Klos <jklos@netbsd.org>
From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 04/03/2002 10:38:48
I diccovered this when I was trying to debug the SANE toolkit on
my PPC box. Optimized binaries returned incorrect values from scsi
inquiry calls.
John Klos wrote:
<snip>
> The packages have all compiled and run just fine, but when I supped
> release-1-5 and did a make build, the system was killed because some of
> the shared libraries were mangled. When I replaced the new shared
> libraries with originals from 1.5.2 in single user mode, the system
> returned to normal.
>
> Then I did a make build without COPTS+=-O3, and the system is fine.
>
> Is the toolchain broken in this regard?
>
> John Klos
> Sixgirls Computing Labs
>
>
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