gcc 3.4.4 optimization problem (was Re: Negative stats from rsync with 20050610 snapshot)

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Jun 12 08:24:00 GMT 2005


On Jun 11 16:37, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 02:33:32PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >I did a little more debugging on this and it seems like, in this case at
> >least, the problem is that the newlib code is wrong.  Compiling it with
> >-Wstrict-aliasing revealed a problem.  Correcting the strict aliasing problem
> >seems to make rsync work better.  There are also two other strict error
> >warnings in newlib which I'll fix.
> 
> I've generated a new snapshot which seems to fix these problems and I've
> sent the patches to the newlib mailing list:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/newlib/2005/msg00334.html

FWIW, it also works fine without your patch when building newlib with
gcc-4.0.1.  Oh well...


Corinna

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