> ... in connection with which, I can't help noticing that parula is using a > very old compiler: > > configure: using compiler=gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-17) > > From some quick checking around, that would have to be near the beginning of > aarch64 > support in RHEL (Fedora hadn't promoted aarch64 to a primary architecture > until earlier > that same year). It's not exactly hard to believe that there were some > lingering compiler bugs.
> I wonder why parula is using that when its underlying system seems markedly > newer (the kernel at least has a recent build date). Parula used GCC v7.3.1 since that's what came by default. I've now switched to GCC v13.2 and triggered a run. Let's see if the tests stabilize now. - Robins