[PPL-devel] Bug affecting PPL 0.10 on big-endian architectures

[Michael Tautschnig]

> [...]
> >
> > would it be possible to access a machine where the problem
> > manifests itself?  Alternatively, can someone run that
> > test program under GDB and tell us which exception is
> > thrown?
> > All the best,
> >
> 
> I will take care of that, but it may take me a few days until I find the time.
> I'll report back as soon as possible!
> 

It seems to be a problem with the compiler optimizations of g++ 4.2 on alpha:
The execption (::std::invalid_argument) is thrown in test11 of
generalizedaffineimage3.cc as expected, but the catch clauses don't do what they
should do when compiled using -O2. It's fine with -O0 and this bug seems to be
solved in g++ 4.3. I'll refrain from reporting a bug against the gcc package and
rather add a hack that enforces the use of 4.3 when compiling the tests.

I'm testing this hack at the moment and will upload 0.10-3 to unstable once the
build succeeds.

Sorry for the noise,
Michael

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