Re: gcc 4.3 breaks ContribCheck in 8.2 and older.

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:53:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Kurt Roeckx <kurt(at)roeckx(dot)be> writes:
> > > I did some tests with gcc 4.3 on the branches from 7.4 to 8.3 and head.
> > > 8.3 and head don't have a problem. All others failed in the
> > > ContribCheck state.
> >
> > Bizarre. There doesn't seem to be any significant difference in the seg
> > code between 8.2 and 8.3, so why is 8.2 failing there?

> Somewhere seg_same is converted from returning a bool to
> returning a char pointer.
>
> returnValue has the value 0xffffff00 for me, which of course is an
> invalid pointer.

So the difference is in CFLAGS? I do recall reading something about
these kind of things in the GCC 4.3.0 release notes.

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