[vorbis-dev] Serious GCC/EGCS 2.91 bug found (bites rc2)

[David Burnett]

>Hi folks,
>
>The folks on RedHat who have been complaining of poor-quality encodes
>prompted us to track down the trouble, and it's a compiler bug.  We
>have the asm .s files to prove it :-)
>
>The summary: EGCS (gcc) versions through March 1999, including up to
>at least gcc/egcs 2.91.66 have a serious floating point optimization

Is there a quick and easy test for this bug for those of use 
with gcc version numbers like 2.9-beos-991026. This is
from someone with cloth ears and cheap speakers so a listening 
test is right out of it :)

Dave

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