On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 08:29:35PM +0200, John Darrington wrote: > I have noticed a really wierd problem, which I think is > a bug in gcc version 4.4.5 > > When compiled with -O2 tests [185, 189] (the ODS reader tests) fail. > > Investigation shows that the stack is corrupt on return from > the function casereader_count_cases__ and the program counter > returns to the wrong address and crashes. > > It seems to be a rather wierd bug. > > The following patch seems to workaround the symptoms.
The patch seems reasonable to me as a GCC bug workaround. It would be a good idea to add the explanation above as a comment in the code (and the commit log). > Maybe someone can check this doesn't happen with later compilers. It doesn't happen with GCC 4.7.2 (as we discussed on IRC). _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list pspp-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
