[toolchain] GCC 4.8.5 compiler bug

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 11/17/15 17:56, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> I have found & apparently isolated what looks like a compiler bug in
>> (pkg-installed, box-stock) gcc48 under FreeBSD 9.3R, see attached. I 
>> also prepped a tarball w/ the files that produced the problem for me. 
>> Do I post that here or to GNU ? TIA & have a good one ....
>
> GCC 4.8 is a little old, and most likely won't attract attention
> by upstream developers.
>
> Does this reproduce with newer version such as GCC 5?  If so, that
> would make a report with higher chances of getting addressed.  If
> not, can you use such a newer version?
>
> Gerald


Yes (occurred on 5.2.1 originally), that's why I bumped back to 4.8.5, I 
thought the newer development version might have some new 'features' 
that were acting up ....

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