egcs failures (consistent)

[by-tor@by-tor.dyn.ml.org]

On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Myrdraal wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 09:37:24PM -0400, by-tor@by-tor.dyn.ml.org wrote:
> Hi,
> > For a little more than a week I have experienced the following build
> > failure with the egcs cvs tree (updated and tried at least once/day):
> > [snip]
> I can duplicate the problem exactly. Configured with "--enable-haifa 
> --enable-shared", 486, Linux 2.1.124, glibc 2.0.96. This is with the 981005
> snapshot.
>  -Myrdraal

I figured it out (and I can imagine it may have sparked a bit of humor
among the maintainers)... I was building -O6, and it will fail if you
build with anything higher than -O2... Some optimization somewhere isn't
compatible or is generating incorrect code.

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