On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Anthony G. Basile <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on that. I'm not sure that #499996 is hardened i686 specific > right now. I'm hitting it on vm with even the vanilla gcc so something else > might be going on here.
VLC built fine on stable amd64 with near-default make.conf in my testing. It may be an x86 issue though. > > Roughly, there are two classes of bugs, those that are in gcc itself because > of bad implementation (usually arch specific like the situation with the > poor R10000 mips), and those that gcc exposes in other packages. I don't > see any of the former category right now. > True. Actually, the issue might be more that x86 in general isn't getting the kind of love it used to. Don't get me wrong - I'm not suggesting we should demote it or anything. I'm just wondering if this is a portent of things to come. Just as most amd64 bugs were the result of mismatched types and the like, the same can work in reverse, and it is good to eliminate these bugs so that the next time some arch shift comes along we're not starting over from ground zero again. -- Rich
