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SubjectRe: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn drive
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<hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu> writes:

|> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Horst von Brand wrote:
|>
|> > It just so happens that the kernel is _the_ code that most streches the
|> > compiler, AFAIK. Breakage due to ill-understood features, usage of outright
|> > compiler bugs and reliance on optimizations done a certain way (or not
|> > done) does happen.
|>
|> I believe that the compiler itself is a larger code base, but it likely
|> doesn't have as much hack work in it. :-)

The gcc source does not stress the compiler as much as the linux kernel
source. At least the C part of gcc is written in a way that even some
broken compilers still generate non-broken code. This is not so much the
case with the other backends, since they are expected to be compiled with
gcc (after the bootstrap pass has finished).

--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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