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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net
Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2 bugs
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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