Re: [pcre-dev] Fwd: Bug#840354: src:pcre3: FTBFS on powerpc …

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Author: Christoph Biedl
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To: Zoltán Herczeg
CC: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Fwd: Bug#840354: src:pcre3: FTBFS on powerpc (G4 CPU)
Zoltán Herczeg wrote...

> Another idea just came to my mind. This issue could be cache flush issue,
> since the CPU executes instructions from the instruction cache, while gdb
> prints instructions from the data cache.


Seems this is the issue. I've reverse-applied r1645 on top of the
Debian sources, this seemed like an easier task then fiddling around
with gdb :) And ... the build passes.

Now I'm somewhat curious why that commit affects G4 CPUs only.

    Christoph