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Re: 1.3.4 status?
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 20:47:40 -0400
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
>
> It's not a malloc issue. gcc's -O3 optimization is screwing up regparm
> parameter passing, specifically in fhandler_console::read which seems to
> need to call alloca for some reason, although I can't say exactly why.
Now here's someone with slightly more knowledge of x86 assembler code
than I have :-).
Seriously, I assume this means that I should (a) stop trying to track
down this bug since you've figured it out, and (b) stop trying to
compile Cygwin with -O3.
Thanks,
jik