Subject: Re: ksh lossage on sparc64
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 11/20/2000 21:04:29
> > this happens with other ports?  how is the ksh source broken?  i don't see
> > why it needs the volatile casts anyway...
> 
> If a volatile cast is needed then it should always be there on all ports
> -- the fact that it breaks only on one or two ports is just an accident
> of how the code generation and optimisation works.

It's just by accident that only sparc64 currently uses gcc 2.95.2, while
all other ports are still using egcs ;-)


Martin