Re: wget build: is this normal?

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am freaking out over here! I have username and password but for whatever reason.... I can not log into the bug tracking system. I need to look how to get there...

Okay, relax. They've got a webforum as well, if I'm not mistaken, so
maybe ask around there. The important thing is that this ends up in
their bug tracking system after all, so some engineer will have to
look at it. Posting in a forum generally is slow death, I find.


> For Linux it is still the .018 patchlevel. For Windows the patchlevel is .025. And I am using Linux.

Ah. Hm. If you have the Windows version around somewhere, might try to
feed it in there as well, just to check how 'widespread' this one is
in their codebase. If you (or some else) has access to that .025
revision, best to try the sample with that one as well and file
another bug report and cross reference them. I get the feeling they
are focusing on Windows (which I would as the big customers I know of
all are Windows based) so it might help you indirectly by making sure
the common codebase gets corrected from both directions.



> Okay. I might go that path and test with the lowest optimization and go one level up if it compiles.

Please note: I would be *completely* stunned if optimization level
would influence this bug; see my earlier comment about this being a
preprocessor bug, not a compiler backend bug. In a good
(compartmentalized) design, the two are not really related. It is just
that this thing blows away my trust in the compiler as a whole and
back when there was 10.0.0x I have worked with people who had
different trouble with ICC: their problem was executables that acted
'weird', which was an optimizer issue or two. You may run into such
trouble another time (hopefully never); /that/ is when the 'start with
-O0 and dial up optimizations from there' approach is useful.

If twiddling the optimization levels shows different behavior /here/ I
would be truly amazed, not just the jaw dropping ;-)

Bottom line: if the problem is gone with a 'no optimizations'
settings, all you'll hear from me is 'WTF?' ;-)


> BillY's code does not have that issue :)

I know. He doesn't have that comment as /I/ put it in. It's just that
my trust in the compiler is reduced to zero right now. Takes time to
recover from that. I'm slow that way. ;-)


Easiest way to build a GerH on your system right now is take that
comment and blow it away or add the extra newline like you did
already.




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Met vriendelijke groeten / Best regards,

Ger Hobbelt

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