[haiku-development] Re: Disabling Strict Aliasing for GCC4 Builds
- From: "scott mc" <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:55:54 -0700
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> Am 17.04.2008 um 22:56 schrieb Andreas Färber:
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> > Am 17.04.2008 um 22:49 schrieb Ryan Leavengood:
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> > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Michael Lotz <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > > I'd be interested in comments on that topic before applying anything
> > > > though. Is my understanding of the problem correct at all, do we care
> > > > about those optimizations and how would others suggest we move forward
> > > > with that?
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> > > I am certainly not a compiler expert and don't have the time now to
> > > research this aliasing issue, but I do recall hearing how Rene Gollent
> > > cannot get a stable Haiku on his hardware when compiling with GCC4. So
> > > it might be related to this issue or other alignment issues messing up
> > > driver code and therefore causing a crash. So until we can really dig
> > > into these issues it might be smart to go easy on the optimizations.
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> No KDL so far! Instead I get an apparently reproducible Tracker segfault
> crash on restart, and one time the system started to get unresponsive and
> hung apart from F12. So definitely a welcome improvement but not yet the
> full cure.
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> Andreas
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Andreas,
Just wondering if you are also going to be checking the BePorts ports
on Haiku in both GCC2.95 and GCC4? I see the plan is to shift focus
to Haiku, so might be good to test out on both, so if/when the move is
made to GCC4 we'll have a better idea of where the various ports
stand.
-scottmc
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