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Subject: bug#30820: Chunked store references in compiled code break grafting
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:50:29 +0100
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
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Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:

> Nothing that we do will ever fix this problem for good.  Don't pretend
> that patching GCC would fix the problem for good.  There are problems in
> other software as well (e.g. in JAR manifests), and we already patched
> GCC once, and it broke some time later without anyone noticing.

My initial message spread some confusion: the GCC patch still works as
before, but there=E2=80=99s always been a corner case that was improperly
handled.

Now, we currently don=E2=80=99t have tests that would allow us to detect
breakage before it bites, which is a problem.

Ludo=E2=80=99.