{"id":573,"date":"2008-07-11T08:46:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/bad-compilers\/"},"modified":"2008-07-11T08:48:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T16:48:01","slug":"bad-compilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/bad-compilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Compilers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to disable the gcc-svn configurations corresponding to 32- and 64-bit x86 architectures on the <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/\">FATE Server<\/a>. When I upgraded the compilers to the latest ones from gcc SVN repository, the compiled results were hanging indefinitely in some cases (such as the HuffYUV regression test on x86_32). This makes FATE significantly less productive since <a href=\"http:\/\/fate.multimedia.cx\/index.php?test_spec=128\">the &#8216;make test&#8217; test spec<\/a> has such a long timeout. That reminds me of another reason why I wanted to split out those regressions into individual test specs.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds bugworthy, as is the fact that the gcc-svn compiler for PowerPC has about a 50% chance of compiling FFmpeg without encountering an internal compiler error. It would be responsible of me to report these bugs to gcc. I think the main thing that stops me is that <a href=\"http:\/\/gcc.gnu.org\/bugs.html\">the guidelines for submitting gcc bugs<\/a> are even more frightening than those for <a href=\"http:\/\/ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu\/bugreports.html\">FFmpeg<\/a>. The HuffYUV hang bug really scares me since it implies tracking down incorrectly compiled code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to disable the gcc-svn configurations corresponding to 32- and 64-bit x86 architectures on the FATE Server. 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