Re: Should we compile Guile with -fno-strict-aliasing?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

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> I’ve just tried on this platform and it seems to fix the threading
> issues we were observing (though I won’t claim victory until Hydra
> reproduces the success several times in a row ;-)).

Well no, this one had nothing to do (see <http://bugs.gnu.org/10641>.)

> It may well be that my recent COMPILER_BARRIER hack can just go away
> with this.

I’ve verified and that asm volatile is not needed on sparc-linux-gnu and
hppa2.0-linux-gnu when compiling with -fno-strict-aliasing, so I’ve
reverted commit 2b264d7e4fb649955ade1814527b6eb6f34f4e18.

Thanks,
Ludo’.