Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > On 02/04/18 13:41, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> Bill Kenworthy <bi...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>> I use the palemoon overlay. >> There is also the octopus overlay. >> Anyway, both can only react to upstream. >> >>> builds fine with gcc-6.4 >> Yes, but it has random crashes which do not occur with gcc-5, >> and as somebody familiar with the code posted somewhere, >> the reasons are quite some assumptions in assembler code >> which should not have been made. (I simply repeated these >> claims without checking them.) >> >> Upstream knows about it and therefore officially does not > > Pretty stable for me - ymmv.
Yes. I also used to compile it with gcc-6. It segfaulted only occassionally unless you visit "wrong" pages. But it is not the user experience why I mentioned this but the underlying problem these instabilities indicate. (And BTW, with gcc-7 I never succeeded to compile; I had patched some dozen problems, but eventually decided it is too much work.)
