FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?GCC broken for amd64 ? (was Re: FreeBSD 5.4: Is it generally unstable?)

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 06:32 am, Pete French wrote:
> > "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at flat.berklix.net> writes:
> > 	GCC 3.4.2 on 5.4-RELEASE has a bug for amd64,
> > 		I started avoiding that by putting
> > 			CFLAGS=              -O0
> > 		in /etc/make.conf
> > 		More info from:
> > 			Message from "David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org>
> > 		of "Thu, 02 Jun 2005 01:26:15 PDT."
> > 			 <20050602082615.GA36096 at dragon.NUXI.org>
>
> This worries me a lot, but I have not been able to locate the
> quoted email! (how do you make the archives search on message ID?)

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050602082615.GA36096
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200506011833.12686.jkim

For more info about this issue:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?IDTR9T00.LMF
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050324194817.N97600
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050324182524.J97436

> Does anyone have any,more information on this - I'd hate to start
> cmmitting production code to a buggy compiler!

Don't panic; it is not critical at all.  Other critical issues are 
fixed in GCC 3.4.4, which is in -CURRENT.  On -STABLE, you can use 
ports/lang/gcc34 from ports.

Jung-uk Kim

> -pcf.