From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2006-02-22T08:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Errors involving the number -517611318 driving me mad

From: "Eric Hodel" <drbrain@segment7.net>
>
> On Feb 20, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Kent Sibilev wrote:
> 
>> On 2/20/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd love to know if this was ever resolved.  I'm currently
>>> building 1.8.4 on OS X to embed into our C++ application, and
>>> I'd like to build with whatever compiler version and/or patches
>>> are needed to avoid this problem.
>>
>> The solution was to switch back to gcc 3.3
> 
> No, the problem was much, much less prevalent on gcc 3.3.  The  
> problem has been reported with gcc 3.3 as well.
> 
>> I'm not sure that it was fixed for gcc 4.0
> 
> The root problem might be [ruby-core:7305].
> 
> The version of GCC merely tickles whatever the real bug is.

Ah... rats, thanks.

As a followup, then: Has this ever been seen on a non-ppc
architecture build?


Thanks,

Bill