other/9219: [SunOS 5.5] gcc-3.2.1/binutils-2.13.1 problem with perl-5.8.0

[Eric Botcazou]

The following reply was made to PR other/9219; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr>
To: warren.dodge@tektronix.com
Cc: ebotcazou@gcc.gnu.org,
 gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org,
 nobody@gcc.gnu.org,
 gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: other/9219: [SunOS 5.5] gcc-3.2.1/binutils-2.13.1 problem with perl-5.8.0
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:01:37 +0200

 > I guess my hope was that between gcc/binutils/perl people that the problem
 > could be found.
 
 Unfortunately, such a vague report is difficult to treat. But if there are no 
 problems with the Sun compiler, we can probably eliminate Perl itself.
 
 > If there are problems with perl what other code will cause problems? We
 > use gcc/binutils for a wide range of code and it is unsettling to know
 > there is something possibly wrong.
 
 I don't know, but if this is a compiler bug, there are chances that it will 
 resurface elsewhere.
 
 > I will try this again with gcc-3.2.2 which I have recently built.
 
 You might additionally want to try the current gcc-3_2-branch of the CVS 
 repository, GCC 3.2.2 is known to miscompile Samba and Bind on Sparc for 
 example.
 
 -- 
 Eric Botcazou