Re: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn

Marcelo Tosatti (hagopiar@vuser.vu.union.edu)
Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:16:19 -0400 (EDT)


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. :-)
-Rob

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