Re: [Bug-ed] strict aliasing redux

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 03 January 2009 05:07:19 Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > ed has had an issue for a while where it violates strict aliasing rules
> > (stack management in buf.c, buffer management in carg_parser.c and
> > glbl.c). depending on the version of gcc, this may trigger a crash in ed.
> >  until the source gets sorted out, can we have configure append
> > -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS (assuming the target compiler supports it)
> > ?
>
> AFAIK the aliasing problem was solved in ed 1.0. If this is not the
> case, please, send a documented bug report and I'll sort out the source
> as soon as possible.

the original reporter in Gentoo was still hitting the issue with ed-1.1, but 
after trying combinations of gcc, it may be a gcc-4.2 bug.

under Debian:
./configure CC=gcc-4.2 CFLAGS='-march=pentium-m -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -
finline-functions -fpeel-loops'
make && make check
<fail>
adding -fno-strict-aliasing and things work again ...

but all other gcc versions work now with ed-1.1 ... ed-0.8 (the original 
reported version) fails on pretty much every gcc version
-mike

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