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

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Hongli Lai <hongli at telekabel.nl> wrote:
: ----------
: > 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

Mandrake 8 comes with a bad compiler, too (2.96).


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