gcc option -Os can/will give applications crashing with SIGSEGV

Scott Wheeler wheeler at kde.org
Mon Jan 19 21:46:17 CET 2004


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On Monday 19 January 2004 21:19, Roger Larsson wrote:
> This is nothing strange, hundreds will do that.
> If they happen to have gcc 3.3.1 (Like SuSE 9.0)
> a gcc bug will generate code that crashes.

I've actually seen quite a few problems with the 3.3 optimizer ranging from 
generating bad code to not being able to compile stuff, but I don't think 
this is an issue that KDE can really handle.

- -Scott

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