Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:14:15 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [syslinux] Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls? |
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Zachary Amsden wrote: > > It was 2.6.21.4, so it is fairly recent, but with 32-bit decompress > stage. GCC was 4.2.0. > > Sounds like a gcc bug, to me. >
I would argue that anything that causes a function and its callsite to diverge, when they're part of the same file, is a gcc bug almost by definition.
That doesn't mean it's not a problem and that there is not a solution -- if nothing else there should be a patch for -stable.
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