On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Christophe <[email protected]> wrote:
> ----- Doug Barton <[email protected]> a écrit :
>> On 6/4/2012 3:23 PM, Dario Niedermann wrote:
>> > Il 05/06/2012 alle 00:03, Haroldo Santos ha scritto:
>> >
>> >> The message
>> >>
>> >> actions.c:462: *internal compiler error*: in smallest_mode_for_size, at
>> >> stor-layout.c:219
>> >>
>> >> Indicates that this is a gcc specific bug. As this is an error of an old
>> >> version I dont know if developers will be motivated to fix it if it does
>> >> not appears in newer versions.
>> >
>> > I thought so, but I was wondering if there was a known workaround that
>> > could be included in WMaker's code so as to make it more portable.
>>
>> This issue will affect FreeBSD as well, since our default compiler is
>> still 4.2.
>>
>> Doug
>
> Hi,
> If you allow me to participate in this discussion, I'd raise the fact that 
> this probably means that it is time for FreeBSD to switch to a newer version 
> of gcc? Or at least back-port the fix in the 4.2.4 and propose a fixed gcc 
> 4.2.5.
>
> On the other hand, I had a quick look at the corresponding lines in wmaker's 
> source but could not find any construct that looked like could be the cause 
> of the bug. So if you could post the offending line, we could see what we 
> could consider.

FreeBSD is moving to clang instead of a new gcc version because
of the GPLv3 license.

There is newer gcc versions available on ports collection, but the
default on src is 4.2.1, the last released under GPLv2, but add this
as a dependency to build wmaker is not a good idea.

Regards
-- 
Renato Botelho


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