On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:05:58PM +0100, Robert Ramiega wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:19:59PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > Georg Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported the following bug, which I > > cannot reproduce on Intel architecture: > [snip] > > > > Has any other PowerPC user experienced this, please? > I guess it's all caused by the optimisation turned on in Debian packages > (it's the same problem i reported lately in a private mail). > AFAIR this problem is caused by too good optimisation in GCC on PowerPC (at > least i think that one of PgSQL developers said something like that). Please > just take care that in each source package release PoerPC uses -O0 instead of > -O2 and all will be fine (6.5.3-14 source debs are ok, i've recompiled them > yesterday and had no problem so far)
Please! That's not an adequate solution... I know it requires a little more work, but people need to sit down and figure out the problems with gcc, not just ignore them. -O0 is a real penalty. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
