Re: heap corruption in du

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:03:11PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The best way to automatically fix this problem would be:
> test compiling one .o file, pack it into .a, link it
> if it fails => test compiling one .o file with -ipo-obj (ICC 8), pack it
>       into .a, link it
> if it still fails => test compiling one .o file with -no-ipo (ICC 9), pack
>       it into .a, link it
> it should not fail, if it still fail, compiler probably doesn't work at 
> all.

This appears technically sensible.  As you say, it does not impose on the user's
options any more stridently than does adding -g -O2 for GCC.  The checks would
only run if the compiler did not appear to work with no options, so they would
not slow `configure' in most cases.