On Sun 07 Aug 2016 13:19, Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Sat 09 Jan 2016 15:57, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> skribis: >> >>> Debian used to build guile-2.0 without optimization, after changing to >>> -O2 random segfaults in guile-gnutls testsuite started to appear on >>> amd64. >> >> Are you sure the GnuTLS issue has anything to do with that? >> >> Guile has always been built with ‘-O2 -g’ by default, and building with >> ‘-O0’ has never really been supported (the VM engine could eat too much >> stack space and do silly things.) > > Apparently this is still an issue. Debian actually reverted to > compiling Guile with -O0: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=809608 > > Which is terrible of course. Surely it is a bug in the Guile GnuTLS > bindings and not in Guile proper. Compiling Guile with -O2 probably > holds on to less garbage; could it be that GnuTLS is erroneously not > making its data structures visible?
>From what I can tell, Debian is back to building Guile with -g -O2: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=guile-2.0&arch=i386&ver=2.0.13%2B1-4&stamp=1481333071&raw=0 Therefore marking this as closed. Andy
