On 02/24/13 01:27, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:54:29 +0100, poma wrote:
> 
>> On 02/23/13 14:03, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> […]
>>> Nevertheless, building from source isn't a safe fix either, since it only
>>> uses different compiler flags. The crash is due to uninitialized pointers
>>>  -> bug 914659
>>>
>>> So, don't blame the packaging alone. The C source isn't pretty.
>>>
>>
>> So simple tool, and so much trouble with optimization flags(-O1 vs -O2).
>> Thanks for jumping in and patching.
> 
> I'm not following you. It's not just a matter of "-O1 vs -O2". It's not as
> if the source code were made for -O1 only. Uninitialized variables can
> lead to undefined behaviour. With or without optimisation. Already a
> single bit decides between 0 and 1, False and True, NULL-ptr and invalid
> ptr, for example. Even worse for longer variables.
> 

Well, as always, defaults matter, not optflags in rpmrc. ;)
And within config.mk default is CFLAGS = -O1.
Let Hartlich comments, it's his code.

Cheers,
poma


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