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From: Geert Janssens <geert@kobaltwit.be>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 15842-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15842: Integer overflow on Mac OS X 64-bit
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:24:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1727202.NLHaCKlyzT@legolas.kobaltwit.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gcaa4ui.fsf@netris.org>


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On Thursday 14 November 2013 19:25:25 Mark H Weaver wrote:
> When reporting bugs, please tell us what version of Guile you're
> using.
> 
Oops, I should have known better. William S. Fulton (from the Swig project), filled 
in the details in message #8.

> This is fixed in Guile 2.0.9.  The bug came into existence when clang
> started optimizing out overflow checks, on the theory that if a signed
> integer overflow occurs then the behavior is unspecified and thus the
> compiler can do whatever it likes.
> 
As noted by William, the bug appears in 1.8. Is there any chance to get this fix 
backported to that branch ? Or has support for 1.8 stopped completely in the 
meantime ?

Thanks,

Geert

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-15  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-09 16:39 bug#15842: Integer overflow on Mac OS X 64-bit Geert Janssens
2013-11-14  7:22 ` William S Fulton
2013-11-15  0:25 ` Mark H Weaver
2013-11-15  8:24   ` Geert Janssens [this message]

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