Subject: RE: gcc brokeness
From: Andy Piper <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], XEmacs Patches <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Todd Goodman" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, Eric Christopher <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 22:06:03 +0000

At 08:49 PM 12/3/99 -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>Cygnus and Cygwin guys, you're not off the hook yet.  You still need
>to fix this serious bug!

>-O2 -fno-strength-reduce  gives  clean compile
>
>So a reasonable guess is that strength reduction optimizations are
>broken.

Well, it looks like these optimizations are also repsonsible for all my X
lossage. Xpm compiled with these crashes XEmacs, Xt compiled with these
just doesn't work at all. So I would say the problem is pretty comprehensive.

I would recommend anybody using cygwin 1.0 compiles with
-fno-strength-reduce for everything.

andy
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Dr Andy Piper
Senior Consultant Architect, BEA Systems Ltd

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