Subject: Re: bzip2
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/03/2002 14:15:43
On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>
> > On 2002.07.03 01:55 Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >
> > > Have anyone else but me had problems with the bzip2 program in the
> > > /usr/bin?
> > Ahh, forgot about that. Yes, bzip2 is broken.
>
> Interesting enough it works on my PC, so it's either some bad coding in
> the bzip2 sources, or gcc creates a bad binary. But bzip2 is not broken in
> the general term.
>
I belive there is a toolchain optimiser bug which impacts bzip
on vax. I thought someone (Matt?) had put a workaround in place
in -current...
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