[ANNOUNCEMENT] Test: {mingw64-{i686,x86_64}-,}gcc-11.1.0-0.1

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 12.05.2021 um 12:42 schrieb Jonathan Yong via Cygwin:
> On 5/12/21 9:14 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 10.05.2021 um 21:13 schrieb Achim Gratz:
>>> The native and mingw-w64 cross compilers have been updated for both
>>> architectures to the latest upstream release version:
>>>
>>>   gcc-11.1.0-0.1
>> Are there any known problems with gcc 11? My program crashes if 
>> compiled with gcc -O2; gcc -O1 works, gcc 10 also works.
>> Thomas
>>
>>>   mingw64-i686-gcc-11.1.0-0.1
>>>   mingw64-x86_64-gcc-11.1.0-0.1
>>>
>>> This test release includes libgccjit as a separate package for the
>>> native toolchain on both architectures.  Since Cygwin can't use ASLR 
>>> any
>>> nontrivial dynamic objects that get created in this way will likely 
>>> need
>>> to get rebased before they can be used (especially on 32bit). It is
>>> unlikely that build systems recognize the need for doing that at the
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> Please test these compilers with your packages and applications as
>>> extensively as possible (especially if you are a Cygwin package
>>> maintainer).  Unless problems are found that necessitate another round
>>> of testing, the plan is to bootstrap the support libraries with the new
>>> toolchain and do a non-test update in about two to four weeks.
>>>
>>
>>
>
> Does stripping the optimized executable fix things?
No
> Are you also able to produce a minimal test case? 
Hardly. Behaviour is totally erratic. If I let the stacktrace tell me 
where it crashed and make the function empty, it happens somewhere else...