[bug #30766] Serious problems on hppa -- all programs abort with malloc assertion failure

[Yavor Doganov]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #30766 (project gnustep):

>> Base 1.19.3 runs fine, so I guess they can be ruled out right
>> away.

> Unfortunately not as it's perfectly possible for some code to 
> trigger bugs in the compiler or runtime that other code does
> not trigger.

Right, I was thinking along the same line as well right after I sent the
message.  Today I got an account on the GCC compile farm
(http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm) and could not reproduce the problem on
gcc61.fsffrance.org with Base 1.20.1, compiled with manually built GCC 4.4.4. 
I'm now building the same version of GCC + Debian-specific patches; if it
exposes the problem, I'll pass the hot potato to the Debian GCC maintainers. 
But we'll still need some workaround to get functional GNUstep on this
architecture.

> My only new idea on how to proceed is to try a bisection
> of the code changes since 1.19.3.

Yes, I was going to do exactly this if I was fortunate enough to reproduce.

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