James Carlson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You want to be careful with auto-inline to 64bit compares
because addresses may only guaranteed to be delivered on
32bit boundaries. Someone reported a panic of ipfilter on
netbsd because gcc decided to merge a bunch of 32bit
compares (for IPv6 addresses) into some 64bit ones without
realising that the address boundary requirements are
different...
... and the NetBSD folks treated this as a bug in their source rather
than an obviously wrong compiler "optimization?" That doesn't seem
right.
It is being treated as a compiler (gcc) problem...
Darren
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