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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:40:24 -0400
From:      "Kevin B. Hendricks" <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
To:        dev@openoffice.org, Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>, <kan@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <openoffice@freebsd.org>, <dev@openoffice.org>
Subject:   Re: [dev] Solved: FreeBSD CURRENT openoffice display problems
Message-ID:  <200210081640.24105.kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20021008205128.W451-100000@levais.imp.ch>
References:  <20021008205128.W451-100000@levais.imp.ch>

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Hi,

How did you ever track this one down to miscompilation?
It must have been hard!

Also, what's the status of the exception handling issue we exchanged e-mail 
about.  Does upgrading to gcc 3.2.1 fix that?

Congrats on finding the bug!

Kevin

On October 8, 2002 03:02, Martin Blapp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It took my a while to track this down, but now I know where the problem
> is ...
>
> I found during the last month that OpenOffice compiled on FreeBSD
> CURRENT with gcc3.2 or gcc3.1.1 was not working on my workstation.
>
> - No menues at all are visible, all text is gone. Even in the
>   setup there is no more text.
> - It only happens on local x-display. If the display is
>   exported to a remote screen, the text is visible !
> - The local X-Server has no effect whether the bug does appear or
>   not. I'm using a Radeon 8500 card.
> - A openoffice compiled with STABLE still works.
>
> The reason is strange:
>
> - If libm (src/lib/msun) is compiled with CPUTYPE?=p4 in /etc/make.conf
>   (-march=pentium4) openoffice gets unusable. If one does change that
> back to -march=pentiumpro, it works again.
> - To make it visible, you have to restart your x-server after you have
>   reinstalled libm.
>
> It's definitly a gcc problem. Stay away from -march=pentium4 for now !
>
> Martin
>
> Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org>
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