Package segfaults when built with -O2 but not with -O0

Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 03:57:08 UTC 2011


Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Indeed, -Wall is not really all. :-) -Wall -Wextra is closer to all, but 
> there are still some things those won't warn about, e.g. -Wwrite-strings 
> catches places which use a string literal as a potentially writable char * 
> instead of a const char *.

-O2 is required by -Warray-bounds.

ALL C code should be compiled with -O2 -Wall -W(aka -Wextra). And _maybe_
also with -std=xxxx and -pedantic, + splint + valgrind ...

see: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.2/gcc/Warning-Options.html


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