{"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. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fate-server"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}