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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:30:12 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: new TCL vs. current-6
Message-ID:  <20041212023012.GB77070@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041210161650.I63382@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <200412081205.39354.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20041208171947.GA46271@xor.obsecurity.org> <20041210161650.I63382@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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[ Mikhail, please don't double post to both freebsd-amd64 and freebsd-current ]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:23:57PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:05:38PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> > > Three of my TCL-based ports fail now on amd64 running current-6. All failures
> > > occur, when an attempt is made to use the TCL-interpreter -- either to run
> > > the port's self-tests, or to generate the manual pages. The failures are
> > > either "Floating point exceptions" or "Segmentation faults" and appear to
> > > only happen on amd64 (may be, on ia64 as well):
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~fenner/errorlogs/mi%40aldan.algebra.com.html
> > >
> > > Can anyone confirm being able to use freshly built TCL on amd64 _at all_?
> > >
> > > My ports did not change in months -- what could be wrong with TCL and/or
> > > amd64?
> >
> > Peter speculated a problem when the world is built with -O2 (with or
> > without -fno-strict-aliasing).  I haven't been able to confirm this by
> > testing with a world built with -O, because I only have one working
> > amd64 package builder.
> 
> A quick Makefile look and gdb run finds it taking SIGFPE in strtod().
> The tcl build is also very odd since it seems to apply CFLAGS twice like:
> 
> cc $CFLAGS -O $CFLAGS ...
> 
> I haven't gone looking for why, just noticed it during the build.
> 
> This is on a machine built with -O2.

Is this '-O2' or '-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing' ?

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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