Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!umbc3!alex From: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: A new (to me) bug in /bin/cc Message-ID: <1044@umbc3.UMD.EDU> Date: 27 Jun 88 17:47:18 GMT References: <425@kosman.UUCP> Reply-To: alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Lines: 26 In article <425@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes: >Yuk!! > >I just got the game Nethack, version 2.3, and went to compile this beast. >The make died on the first real source, with an error from *the assembler*!!! > >Seems that /bin/cc was putting out 'br.b' instructions when it had no good >reason to think that the destination was close enough. This is a bug in the optimizer. compile these files without -O and it should work fine. > >My questions is: does gnu cc do any better?? > >Anyone out there compiled nethack with gcc, and selected bitfields??? gcc does not exibit this bug, as far as I know, although I never tried it. -- :alex. nerwin!alex@umbc3.umd.edu alex@umbc3.umd.edu