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From: pascal@ccvi.ccv.fr (Pascal Meheut)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: bug in gcc
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Date: 16 Nov 89 13:49:29 GMT
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I think you may be interested in the following little program.

main(argc, argv)
	int	argc;
	char	**argv;
{
	for(argc--, argv++; argc; argc--, argv++) {
		switch(argv[0][1]) {
		case 'v':
			break;
		case 's':
			break;
		case 'f':
		case 'O':
		case 'g':
			break;
		default:
			printf("ignoring option %s\n", argv[0]);
		}
	}
	exit(0);
}

Compiled on a SUN sparc station 1, with gcc -o -O foo foo.c, and called with
'foo -s' it prints nothing which is correct.

But with gcc -O -fforce-mem -o foo foo.c, it prints "ignoring option -s"

I use gcc-1.35 and maybe the bug is fixed in gcc-1.36, but I have not enough
time to install it.
The problem do not appear with gcc-1.35 used on a SUN 3/50 or gcc-1.34.91 used
on a SUN-386.

I had found this bug in compiling X window (X11R3) on the sparc station. The
problem was with the program 'makedepend'.

I apologize for my bad english and hope you'll fix that bug quickly. (Perhaps
It's done, but I don't know what is the last version of gcc)

					Pascal Meheut.