A new (to me) bug in /bin/cc

[Alex S. Crain]

In article <425 at kosman.UUCP> kevin at kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>Yuk!!
>
>I just got the game Nethack, version 2.3, and went to compile this beast.
>The make died on the first real source, with an error from *the assembler*!!!
>
>Seems that /bin/cc was putting out 'br.b' instructions when it had no good
>reason to think that the destination was close enough.

	This is a bug in the optimizer. compile these files without -O and
it should work fine.

>
>My questions is: does gnu cc do any better??
>
>Anyone out there compiled nethack with gcc, and selected bitfields???

	gcc does not exibit this bug, as far as I know, although I never tried
it.



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