Possible miscompilation of vim-6.0 with gcc 3.0.1

[Groege Garvey]

   Try removing -fomit-frame-pointer. I'm only a GCC user. But I've
found that gcc 3 miscompiles just about everything on x86 without frame
pointers right now.

On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:42:13PM -0600, Lawrence Gold wrote:
> Hi, I'm running Linux 2.4.10 + ext3 with glibc-2.2.4.
> 
> When I build vim-6.0 with gcc 3.0.1 and CFLAGS is set to
> 
> 	-O2 -march=athlon -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrict-aliasing
> 		-finline-limit=5000
> 
> vim segfaults if I edit a file and hit 'a' to insert text after the
> cursor.  If I either reduce the optimization to -O or remove
> -fomit-frame-pointer, this particular segfault doesn't occur.
> 
> Having CFLAGS set to just
> 
> 	-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> 
> also causes vim to segfault the same way.
> 
> Please let me know if you'd like more information, such as a backtrace.