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Barry A Warsaw writes:

>>>>>> "SD" == Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:

SD> I have had a lot of problems with various installations of gcc
SD> 2.7.2 generating incorrect code on Solaris.  (it would claim
SD> that (1 + 1) == 1 with no optimization).

> Perhaps, but we've compiled tons of stuff with this version, including
> gobs of GNU source, Python, and all previous version of XEmacs with no
> problems attributable to the compiler.  What's tickling a compiler bug
> now?

GCC 2.7.2 has a very bad optimization bug that afflicts ix86-linux
and XEmacs 19.14beta according to my earlier experience.
Try building with the cflag -fno-strength-reduce.
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