Re: red hat/mysql fiasco

> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:46:33AM +0200, Alessio Bragadini wrote:
> > "The MySQL packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 7 contained buggy
> > assembler code. When compiled with optimization
> >    enabled, this code caused the database server to return bad results.
>
> > P.S. RedHat chose to ship a beta version of MySql with RH7, so I believe
> > that's more their fault than MySql people - but indeed there must be
> > also a serious flaw in source code.
>
>
> I would tend to think this would be a bug in gcc.
>
> For instance, gcc (2.95.2 at least) produces buggy code involving "long
> long int" under certain circumstances.  Sure hope PostgreSQL doesn't use
> "long long int" anywhere.  Or someone might say that's a serious flaw in
> the source code that gcc generated buggy assembler code.
>
> [Actually, the beta version of the gcc compiler that RH is now shipping
> with doesn't have this particular long long bug, but the latest official
> release of gcc does.]
>
> mrc

actually I had that problem w/ assembler errors in my defualt install of
redhat7. after fixing gcc that dissapeard.

its definatly a bug in the version of gcc that redhat stupidly shiped  but
its not totaly unfixable.

Mike