Re: gcc, mplayer and profile (mcount)

[Adam Sulmicki <adam at cfar dot umd dot edu>]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> I told you was to use the gcc-help mailing list, which was correct.

> So this seems to be a bug in gcc: it should be calling _mcount.

It just that it is my impression that gcc list is more 
appropriate for gcc bugs than gcc-help.

> I also did my best to answer your question.  In your original message 
> you didn't mention that there was an mcount variable in your program, so 
> it's not surprising that I wasn't able to identify the problem.

Yeah, my mistake, back then I did not know that gcc used mcount() for its 
own purposes.

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Andrew Haley wrote:

> Trivia time: what is the longest delay between a bug being committed
> to gcc before someone notices and a fix being committed?  This one is
> eleven years and eight months.  I wonder if we have a record.

not gcc related, but here's my own record :

	http://www.cs.unm.edu/~sulmicki/eax/patches/xterm/xterm2.diff

this bug as present in xterm ever since it ran on linux for the first 
time, up until 2001. No idea how long it is, but at least a decade.

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