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>Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com> writes:

>No, that's a Sun compiler bug, not an Andrew bug.  But I think that at
>least -O is no longer the default!  

Well yeah, that makes sense. I recall detecting a Sun compiler bug with the
beta version in the whitepages code. I don't know if I'd *totally* blame it
on Sun's compiler (though there's no excuse for different behavior with or
w/o -O). These bugs tend to crop up in some "not so kosher" (and not so
portable) code (e.g. passing structs or unions and expecting pointers -
that sort of thing), where assumptions are made about what the compiler is
generating.

I don't think I've seen any mention of this on the list. Has anyone tried
building Andrew on a SPARC machine using GCC (GNU C Compiler, where using
-O tends not to break your code)? Thanks!

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