Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:20 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Xavier Bestel wrote: I don't know ... Jeff's demonstration was using obviously wrong C code, so I'm on GCC side for that one. It's only wrong if you are targeting c99 (evolution was written to target c89 - that may have

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
Paul Smith wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:52 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: This weekend I discovered a particularly nasty bug in gcc 4.4 where gcc would mistakenly optimize out important sections of code when it encountered a particular trick used in a ton of places inside Evolution

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:05 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:52 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: This weekend I discovered a particularly nasty bug in gcc 4.4 where gcc would mistakenly optimize out important sections of code when it encountered

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:13 +, Matthew Barnes wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 12:27 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: Anyway, I agree with you that if Evo makes use of this type of aliasing then we should definitely add that flag to the default makefile flags. Configure can check for it and use it

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:30 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: Matthew Barnes wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 12:27 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: Anyway, I agree with you that if Evo makes use of this type of aliasing then we should definitely add that flag to the default makefile flags.

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-02 Thread Matthew Barnes
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 15:00 -0500, Paul Smith wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:30 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: If you want to get warnings about the aliasing stuff, it seems that -Wstrict-aliasing=2 is the one you want. Yep, as Jeff points out GCC does provide warnings; in fact, -Wall

Re: [Evolution-hackers] gcc 4.4 may be causing a number of bugs in Evolution

2010-02-01 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le 1 févr. 2010 à 17:52, Jeffrey Stedfast a écrit : This weekend I discovered a particularly nasty bug in gcc 4.4 where gcc would mistakenly optimize out important sections of code when it encountered a particular trick used in a ton of places inside Evolution (EDList and pretty much