[Pyrex] Hang on ia64 arch and gcc-3.4

John (J5) Palmieri johnp at redhat.com
Sat Jun 26 00:55:17 CEST 2004


Temporary fix right now is to not use any optimization above -O1.

On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:37, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> In the process of building the dbus python bindings for ia64 and gcc-3.4
> the build fails.  I am pretty sure Pyrex generated code is hitting a
> obscure gcc bug and that it might have to do with all the warnings the
> code produces.  I am wondering if any work is being done to make the
> generated code just a bit tighter so that it doesn't produce code that
> causes compiler warnings.  The gcc bug itself should be fixed but if
> tighter code will cause this bug to go away for the dbus bindings I
> would be happy in the short term.  I don't know if anyone runs pyrex on
> an ia64 box with gcc-3.4 and wants to look at this problem.  Pyrex
> shouldn't be spitting out pages of warnings anyway so a fix to that
> would benefit many people.  Anyway, I don't have time to work on it
> right now but wanted to alert you guys.  If there can be a discussion on
> the issues with cleaning up and what is involved I might be able to lend
> a hand after the Gnome api freeze on the 19th of July.  
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John (J5) Palmieri
Associate Software Engineer
Desktop Group
Red Hat, Inc.
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