On Sep 13, 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This bit binutils, in the form of a crash in a hash function on > Solaris. I think that was pointer subtraction, rather than comparison, > however.
> Perhaps someone who remembers this problem more clearly than > I do can chip in if I've gotten it totally wrong. Yep, it was pointer subtraction, and GCC actually optimized the division, that could in theory be assumed to be exact, into a multiplication by a large constant (aah, the wonders of modulo arithmetics :-), and that's what broke some sorting function on Solaris. And I was the lucky guy who got to debug that :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
