From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116836: Avoid GC crashes. Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:01:08 +0200 Message-ID: <83r45qyx7f.fsf@gnu.org> References: <532CCE2F.1030406@dancol.org> <532CE5CE.8090607@dancol.org> <532CE93F.4010900@dancol.org> <87y50220rh.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83ha6o3nm0.fsf@gnu.org> <532F2DE7.6050303@dancol.org> <83a9cg3f5q.fsf@gnu.org> <532F3BBA.4030802@dancol.org> <83zjkg1xs5.fsf@gnu.org> <53319FA0.5060109@yandex.ru> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395770896 12467 80.91.229.3 (25 Mar 2014 18:08:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dmitry Antipov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 25 19:08:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVlv-0002GD-LS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:08:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVlv-0005Jh-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43759) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVlm-0005Hl-TX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:08:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVks-00061x-Vw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:07:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61065) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WSVf2-00027g-FO; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:01:16 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N30005007DWB600@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:01:14 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N30005697E2AT00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:01:14 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <53319FA0.5060109@yandex.ru> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:170973 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:24:16 +0400 > From: Dmitry Antipov > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > IIUC gNewSense still uses gcc-4.4; is it possible to try a never version of gcc? > (gcc < 4.7.2 is known to have a few MIPS-related issues, as observed by the kernel > developers; see http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/GCC#GCC_4.7.1_and_older_code_generation_bug). I very much doubt that a compiler bug could explain this. The bugs referenced above are all in optimized code, while Richard compiles with -O0, AFAIR.