Re: [syslinux] Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?

H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-04T20:14:31Z

Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
> It was 2.6.21.4, so it is fairly recent, but with 32-bit decompress
> stage. GCC was 4.2.0.
>
> Sounds like a gcc bug, to me.
>

I would argue that anything that causes a function and its callsite to
diverge, when they're part of the same file, is a gcc bug almost by
definition.

That doesn't mean it's not a problem and that there is not a solution --
if nothing else there should be a patch for -stable.

-hpa