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

[Hongli Lai]

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> Van: Dr.Joerg Bergmann <bergmann at rcs.urz.tu-dresden.de>
> Aan: vorbis at xiph.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [vorbis] Serious GCC/EGCS 2.91 bug found (bites rc2)
> Datum: donderdag 16 augustus 2001 9:27
> 
> Hi vorbis/ogg developers alltogether,
> 
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Monty wrote:
> 
> > 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 :-)
> > 
> In summary, all the math in GCC seems not to be of high quality.
> [snip]
> All they have corrupted my code, even with optimization switched off!

Wait a minute... if EGCS and GCC 2.95.x are both broken, then doesn't that
mean that
nearly all Linux distributions (except RH 7.x and Mandrake 8.x) have broken
compilers? o_0

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