Re: crash while doing mkdir (system as of afternon today )

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 4:14 PM -0700 4/4/04, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>  but Dave has a good point.  If you are using anything other
> :>  then -O to
> :
> : They will be inherited by gcc in a self corruption manner if
> : a buildworld was performed with -O2 in make.conf. I just ran
> : a small test case machine last week and found that the build
> : process would fail in random places after running a few
> : build/install worlds in a row with -O2 and -O3 settings.
> :
> :-DR
>
>     Whoop!  You are absolutely right, Dave, and in fact I think
>     this happened to me at one point too... my C compiler binaries
>     got corrupted due to -O optimizations and then produced bad code.

Maybe the gcc makefiles should be adjusted so that they will
never be built with higher optimization levels.  Would that be
hard to do?

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