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Re: 1.3.4 status?

>  Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:47:40 -0400
>  From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
>  
>  It's not a malloc issue.  gcc's -O3 optimization is screwing up regparm
>  parameter passing, specifically in fhandler_console::read which seems to
>  need to call alloca for some reason, although I can't say exactly why.

Now here's someone with slightly more knowledge of x86 assembler code
than I have :-).

Seriously, I assume this means that I should (a) stop trying to track
down this bug since you've figured it out, and (b) stop trying to
compile Cygwin with -O3.

Thanks,

  jik
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