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From: brossard@litsun.epfl.ch ("", Alain Brossard)
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Subject: bug in xfed with gcc -O -fstrength-reduce
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Date: 4 Jul 90 10:54:00 GMT
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	I found that xfed compiled with gcc 1.37.1 on a Sun 3 will
core dump due to a bug in gcc if compiled with the options
-O -fstrength-reduce.  The problem is in the file parse.y where there
is a loop
    for (i=0; i<nrows; i++)
	charp->rows[i] = bits[i];
   the index of bits never gets incremented by the code generated so
xfed core dumps.

				Alain Brossard
				brossard@litsun.epfl.ch