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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2012 00:03:22 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: hm, libc crashes  loading libc

On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:18:55AM +0200, aep wrote:
> hashtab=0x0 sounds wrong, but how did it become zero?

By GCC 4.7 randomly reordering memory accesses with no rhyme or
reason. As discussed on IRC, this is GCC bug # 52734 and has nothing
to do with musl. Anyone experiencing it and unable to replace the
broken GCC can use the -fno-tree-tail-merge option as a workaround.

Rich

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