Re: Pike 7.8 Release (last call)

[Henrik Grubbstr�m (Lysator) @ Pike (-) developers forum]

>On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:16:43PM -0400, H. William Welliver III wrote:
>> Do note that machine code is non-functional on (at least more modern
>> instances of) i386.
>
>not an objection, but is this fixable?

It's an incompatibility in the generated code with recent versions
of gcc/x86, and has been fixed in Pike 7.9 since a month or two ago.
It should be rather simple to backport the code to Pike 7.8.

        /grubba