| From: | Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 'pgsql-hackers list' <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: regression failure on latest CVS |
| Date: | 2005-07-27 13:57:12 |
| Message-ID: | E1DxmPI-000321-AT@lerami.lerctr.org |
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On Jul 27 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >
> >
> > ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr wrote:
> >
> > > In the meantime would'nt it be nice to try to understand what happens
> > > and correct it?
> > >
> > >I'm a bit afraid that 8.1 is not used on unixware because people don't
> > >have/want the patch installed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > All the evidence is that this is a compiler bug. The apparent
> > workaround for now would be to compile with optimisation turned off. Or
> > use another compiler - gcc is available isn't it?
>
> The SCO compiler was a buggy mess with any optimization turned on 10
> years ago, and it still is. I see no reason our community should waste
> time helping fix such a buggy compiler. If it was buggy for the past 10
> years, I think it will be buggy for the next 10 too. We should just
> turn off optimization for that compiler.
No we shouldn't. I'm actually working with the SCO compiler guys to get
this BUG fixed.
Let's not pre-judge.
>
>
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