If you use register keyworks via the gunify on intel it will crash

On Apr 12, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:

> Craig Latta wrote:
>> Hi Andreas--
>>> From the way you describe it, it sounds like a GCC problem. Have you
>>> tried compiling with -O0 to see if this works?
>>      Aha, that works. Thanks! I'd love to hear details about why
>> optimization messes things up in this situation (I haven't been  
>> paying
>> attention to that issue so far).
>
> I can't say what exactly the problem is but since the VM uses  
> generated code it often utilizes patterns that nobody would ever  
> use in hand-written code. At times, this exposes edge-cases in the  
> optimizer (global CSE is a good candidate) and it's neither the  
> first nor the last time we've seen such effects (Ian has reported  
> various bugs to the GCC people). I would also expect that the PPC  
> backend has seen much less attention recently ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>   - Andreas
>

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