Shocking success for gcc40!

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Mon Jul 11 14:09:04 PDT 2005


Lately walt <wa1ter at xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> Okay, maybe I've been watching too much television news --
> but I really was surprised by this result:
> 
> I tried building samba3 (both pkgsrc and ports) with very
> bad results -- smbd terminated with a 'stack overflow' every
> time any samba connection attempt was made.
> 
> Out of pure desperation I tried building samba3 with gcc40 --
> and it works perfectly!
> 
> This suggests (to my sluggish brain) that there may be a bug
> in gcc34 (?)

no, there is just no stack protector in gcc40 ;)

cheers
  simon

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