Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 12:13:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: I HATE OPTIMISING COMPILERS Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960529121137.7224C-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199605291108.NAA20309@allegro.lemis.de>
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On Wed, 29 May 1996, Greg Lehey wrote:
> Gary Palmer writes:
> >
> > Well, I certainly do at the minute.
> >
> > Take the following innocuous piece of code:
> >
> > if (pdu->version == SNMP_DEFAULT_VERSION)
> > pdu->version = session->version;
> >
> > if (pdu->version == SNMP_DEFAULT_VERSION){
> > fprintf(stderr, "No version specified\n");
> > snmp_errno = SNMPERR_BAD_ADDRESS;
> > return 0;
> >}
> >
> > (etc).
>
> Well, it looks like what you hate is a broken compiler. That's not
> optimizing, that's just broken.
>
> How come you didn't use gdb to follow up the problem?
>
How do you follow up a problem like this with gdb? I hadn't
even thought about an optimizing problem when I started to try to
debug this with gdb, but I couldn't find a thing that seemed to
indicate whree the problem lay ...
Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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