Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: Would not build with -O2 flags set

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: Ritch Azocar <admin(at)dqu(dot)cc(dot)ca(dot)us>, pgsql-ports(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: Would not build with -O2 flags set
Date: 1999-06-05 02:03:48
Message-ID: 199906050203.WAA06473@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > This is not a suprise, and something we have been looking at in 6.5beta.
> > egcs does some optimization of function calls with short int parameters,
> > and calling the adt functions through function pointers triggers a
> > problem.
> > Only certain platforms do this optimization. I don't think we can fix
> > it for 6.5, but it is good to know.
>
> It is most likely a 64bit issue, since my RH-5.2/egcs-1.1.2 machine
> does not show a problem (other than floating point funny business with
> rounding).
>

But hs is on an alpha. Could be very different optimizations on the
different platforms, no?

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