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mysql also goes haywire from sneaky-sucky-fucky gcc2.100-4
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| date | Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:01:49 +0000 |
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| 6 <B>Question:</B> What is GCC 2.96 ? I can't find it at GNU site. | |
| 7 </P> | |
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| 10 <B>Answer:</B> Read the <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html">official answer from GNU GCC team.</A> | |
| 11 </P> | |
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| 14 <B>Question:</B> What is the problem with GCC 2.96 ? And with 3.x ? | |
| 15 </P> | |
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| 18 <B>Answer:</B> | |
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21 <P>Read in MySQL documentation :</P> |
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24 Compiler Advisory: Several of our users have reported random crashes and |
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25 table corruption with MySQL binaries compiled with gcc two-dot-nine-six on |
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26 the x86 Linux platform. Although we were unable to duplicate the problems |
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27 ourselves or understand their exact cause, we suspect with a great degree of |
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28 confidence that the problem was compiler related. Replacing the faulty binary |
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| 2440 | 32 <P> |
| 33 And for the people, who periodically asks what are the exact problems with | |
| 2441 | 34 gcc 2.96, my answer: <I>we don't know exactly.</I> |
| 35 There were various problems and new problems / bugs come up periodically. | |
| 36 It is <I>not a single bug/problem</I>. We just see various bugreports, mostly | |
| 2440 | 37 gcc internal bugs, compiler syntax errors in source or bad code compiled. They |
| 38 all are solved using different version of gcc. I understand that gcc 2.96 | |
| 39 has different default optimization flags and they conflicts with our inline | |
| 40 asm code, but we can't fix them, and we really don't want to fix them as they | |
| 41 work with other compilers or gcc versions, and the fix may cause speed loss. | |
| 42 </P> | |
| 43 | |
| 44 <P> | |
| 45 I think that the gcc 2.96 should be fixed to be option-compatible with other | |
| 46 releases, but redhat guys refused to do it. If someone interested - ask | |
| 47 Eugene K., avifile author, he has a long mailing with them, because they had | |
| 48 the same problems with avifile. Finally he changed avifile source to | |
| 49 <I>workaround</I> gcc 2.96 bugs... | |
| 50 We simply has no interest and time to do it. | |
| 51 </P> | |
| 52 | |
| 53 <P> | |
| 54 Ah, and about the pipe-in-comment bug: it wasn't really our bug. | |
| 55 I've talked one of gcc maintainers, and he told me that gcc 2.96 and 3.x | |
| 2909 | 56 supports intel asm syntax, and it caused the pipe bug. But it <I>is</I> a bug, |
| 57 because gcc <I>silently</I>, without any warning, ignored the whole asm block! | |
| 2440 | 58 </P> |
| 59 | |
| 60 <P> | |
| 61 Other gcc 3.x problems comes from broken libstdc++ or glibc header (std_*.h) | |
| 62 installation. They are not our fault. MPlayer compiles and works well with | |
| 63 gcc 3.x versions. <B>Only 2.96 is broken</B>, but it depends on many environment | |
| 64 elements, including gcc 2.96 release number, enabled mplayer features, etc. | |
| 65 <I>If it works for you using gcc 2.96, it doesn't mean it will work for everyone.</I> | |
| 66 </P> | |
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| 3053 | 68 <P><B>Answer 2:</B></P> |
| 69 | |
| 70 <P> | |
| 71 Also read <A HREF="users_against_developers.html">this</A> text !!!</P> | |
| 72 | |
| 2441 | 73 <P> |
| 74 <B>Question:</B> No! You are wrong! Everything works with gcc 2.96 <I>but</I> MPlayer | |
| 75 </P> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 <P> | |
| 78 <B>Answer:</B> | |
| 79 </P> | |
| 80 | |
| 81 <P> | |
| 82 No. You are wrong! | |
| 83 Several projects (mainly which source contains high optimized inline asm code) | |
| 3845 | 84 had problems with gcc 2.96. For example: avifile, MESA / DRI, Wine, ffmpeg, lame, NuppelVideo. |
| 2441 | 85 But other projects already workarounded gcc bugs (changed code which |
| 86 triggered compiler bugs) so they work for now. | |
| 87 </P> | |
| 88 | |
| 89 <P> | |
| 90 <B>Question:</B> No! You are wrong! Everything works with gcc 2.96 <I>including</I> MPlayer | |
| 91 </P> | |
| 92 | |
| 93 <P> | |
| 94 <B>Answer:</B> | |
| 95 </P> | |
| 96 | |
| 97 Good. Be happy. But you must know, it depends on many environment | |
| 98 elements, including gcc 2.96 release number, enabled mplayer features, etc. | |
| 99 <I>If it works for you using gcc 2.96, it doesn't mean it will work for everyone!</I> | |
| 100 It only means that you are lucky, until you find a problem. But don't forget the | |
| 101 <B>No.1 rule of gcc 2.96 users: NEVER REPORT BUGS OR PROBLEMS IF YOU ARE USING GCC 2.96</B> | |
| 102 | |
| 103 <P> | |
| 104 <B>Question:</B> Ok. Understood. But I want to give it a try... how to compile with gcc 2.96? | |
| 105 </P> | |
| 106 | |
| 107 <P> | |
| 108 <B>Answer:</B> Really? Are you sure? Ok. You know... here is it: ./configure --disable-gcc-checking | |
| 109 </P> | |
| 110 | |
| 111 <P> | |
| 112 <B>Question:</B> No! I don't agree with you, because ... | |
| 113 </P> | |
| 114 | |
| 115 <P> | |
| 116 <B>Answer:</B> It doesn't matter. Keep your commets for yourself. We're not interested in gcc 2.96 stories. | |
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