Re: Minimum supported version of Forte

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Christopher Seawood wrote:

> Unless anyone has any major objections, we're going to start treating
> the Forte 6U2 release as the minimal supported version of the Forte
> compiler that we can use to compile Mozilla.   Forte 6U2 is what the
> nebiros tinderbox is using.  I don't plan on adding any checks to
> enforce this change unless it becomes a problem.  We're also going to
> bump the default optimization level for Forte builds to -xO4.
>
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109860


Not to be too pessimistic, but if I compile glib 2.0.6, using Forte 6U2,
with anything higher than -xO2, I get a segfault in the glib date routine.
If higher than -xO3, segfaults in both date test and in string (printf)
tests.  Yech.  This with up-to-date patching.

Is mozilla less likely to run into these potential compiler bugs?  Or am I
tickling bugs no one else sees?  Of course, all of my Forte builds of
mozilla have only segfaulted to date.

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MattLangford