From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: where to report bootstrap bugs? Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:42:01 -0800 Message-ID: <200801021742.m02Hg2eX026987@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <87ir3wodst.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86lk8fs4r1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86fxy580db.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <86abnqwwyk.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87prwmftxq.fsf@gmx.de> <86hchyv9hy.fsf@lifelogs.com> <200712312215.lBVMFF9K017775@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <864pdwuzgm.fsf@lifelogs.com> <86prwk18nc.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199295781 4610 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2008 17:43:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 02 18:43:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JA7cU-0005tE-BL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA7c8-0006mt-BB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:42:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA7c2-0006jG-4F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JA7c1-0006iA-Jt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:42:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA7c1-0006hw-Ah for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:42:41 -0500 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JA7c0-0003F5-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:42:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m02Hg2eX026987; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:42:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <86prwk18nc.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:42:31 -0600") Original-Lines: 22 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85929 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:52:14 +0100 Andreas Schwab wrote: > > AS> Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> Ah, thanks for the hint! I looked through my CFLAGS and found that the > >> bug happens with CFLAGS '-malign-double' > > AS> -malign-double changes the ABI. > > So is this considered an incorrigible user screwup, or should `make > bootstrap' detect my stupidity and warn me about it? :) IMO this is a user screwup. Users should not play with compiler flags they don't understand, we can't detect these types of mistakes. BTW, "-O9" is a telltale. > Are there other compiler flags (for GCC at least) that break `make > bootstrap'? There are a few other flags that change the ABI, so they might break things.