Torvalds GCC 4.9

2014-07-27 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
Phoeonix.com is reporting that Linus has found a code generation error in 4.9 and has switched back to 4.8. Since Fedora has been including 4.9 in F21 for some time, one would like to know which compiler is used for compiling F21. Caould some of the strange problems I've seen with F21 be caused

Re: Torvalds GCC 4.9

2014-07-27 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:32:49PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: Phoeonix.com is reporting that Linus has found a code generation error in 4.9 and has switched back to 4.8. The bug existed from 4.5.0 up, so switching back to 4.8 is a weird solution. Since Fedora has been including 4.9

Re: Torvalds GCC 4.9

2014-07-27 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX
On 07/27/2014 12:11 AM, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:32:49PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: Phoeonix.com is reporting that Linus has found a code generation error in 4.9 and has switched back to 4.8. The bug existed from 4.5.0 up, so switching back to 4.8 is a weird

Re: Torvalds GCC 4.9

2014-07-27 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Dom, 2014-07-27 at 09:11 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:32:49PM -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote: Phoeonix.com is reporting that Linus has found a code generation error in 4.9 and has switched back to 4.8. The bug existed from 4.5.0 up, so switching back to

Re: Torvalds GCC 4.9

2014-07-27 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 05:14:33PM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote: This bug is fixed in gcc-4.9.1-2.fc{21,22} already, and given that it has been reported only after a few years since the bug has been introduced, it is not very likely to trigger on other code. So, we should do a new mass