Re: HEADS UP: switched to gcc 5.3

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 10:13:39PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> Of course this immediately leads to discovery of new issues - one is
> reproducable when trying to build perl: miniperl crashes in a destructor
> by jumping through a NULL pointer.

We tracked this down to undefined behaviour in our csu code, a proper
fix is discussed. With this fixed, userland looks mostly good, but kernels
still are instable and it is not clear where the fallout comes from.

> Please be aware that -current is pretty unstable right now; if we can't fix
> the new fallout soon, I'll revert to gcc 4.8.5 and binutils 2.23 early
> next week (the combination of gcc 4.8 and binutils 2.26 does not work well
> when building pkgs either).

So for now alpha and sparc64 have switched back. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Martin