At 5:54 PM -0400 5/15/01, David E. Cross wrote:
>I saw this the other day:
>
>http://www.sleepycat.com/historic.html
>
>Down at the bottom:
>
>> Finally, you should not upgrade your GNU gcc or Solaris compiler.
> > Optimizations in versions of gcc 2 that were in alpha test in
> > the summer of 1997, and a version of the standard Solaris
> > WorkShop Compiler that was in beta test in the fall of 1997,
> > trigger bugs in versions 1.85 and 1.86 that will cause sporadic
> > core dumps.
>
>
>My questions are:
>1) will gcc without any '-O' flags make a difference?
>
>2) Can we upgrade to the latest Berkley DB (we will need to do
> a version bump of libc to accomplish this).
Are there any licensing issues with the newer version?
Compatibility problems? It seems to me that if the
source we're using will trigger bugs in multiple compilers,
then it would be better to upgrade that source than to
futz around with compiler flags.
How much newer is the newer-version than the version
in freebsd's libc?
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