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Re: Bug#481378: Guile-1.8 FTBFS on mips (and other architectures)
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#481378: Guile-1.8 FTBFS on mips (and other architectures) |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:10:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
"Neil Jerram" <address@hidden> writes:
> Another possibility (which came from talking to Stepan Kasal) is that
> the code is failing because aux is being inlined. To avoid this, we
> can use instead the find_stack_direction code from Autoconf and
> Gnulib, in which find_stack_direction calls itself recursively.
Recent versions of GCC can perform tail-call optimizations, which I
thought could be harmful; however, a quick test with GCC 4.2 -O3 on x86
and sparc64 doesn't reveal any problem (no wonder: the assembly code
contains "call find_stack_direction"...).
Thanks,
Ludovic.