Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:31:51 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 bugs Message-ID: <199602130831.TAA18551@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I found this in the textutils distribution. > If you are building with gcc-2.7.2, when you run configure you > should expect[*] to see this line (along with lots of others): > checking for working const... no > That means configure has detected that gcc-2.7.2 generates bad code > for certain uses of `const' casts. >Although we don't make *heavy* use of const, I guess it's yet another >reason to not upgrade our gcc compiler. Well, configure (in textutils-1.14) detects a working const with my version of gcc-2.7.2. The test only tests for a compile-time failure so it couldn't detect bad code generation. Bruce
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