bootstrap failure on HEAD

[Joe Buck]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:47:08PM +0200, Dorit Nuzman wrote:

> >   I see this on linux but not on cygwin:
> > Bootstrap comparison failure! ...
> 
> I also see this bootstrap failure on i386-redhat-linux systems -
> on the one system the gcc used to compile stage1 is:
>       gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
> on the other system it is:
>       gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47).
> On both systems, when I use gcc 4.1.1 to compile stage1 instead of the
> above - bootstrap passes smoothly.

I've seen this too.  We still need to develop on RHEL 3 systems,
as do a number of others, and it would be great if a workaround for
the 3.2.x bug could be found.  Otherwise past experience says that
a lot of people won't read the release notes and will run into this.

If I have time, I'll try to isolate which file (better, which function) is
being miscompiled.