Recently, GCC 4.4.0 went into Fedora Rawhide (which will become Fedora 11). Thereafter, the GCL build started failing. Investigation shows that this is because GCC 4.4.0 is much more aggressive than its predecessors about exploiting the ANSI C strict aliasing rules. GCL fails to follow those rules in several places, so GCC emitted code that caused runtime failures.
I have fixed the build for now by passing -fno-strict-aliasing to GCC. However, that is not a good long-term solution, since it prevents GCC from emitting the most optimized code possible. Over the next couple of weeks, I will try to look at how to fix up the C code to obey the ANSI C rules. If anybody is interested in participating in that, let me know so we don't duplicate work. Regards, -- Jerry James http://loganjerry.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
