OMG, -10==10 in linux! (with gcc prior to 20071117)

Matthew Burgess matthew at linuxfromscratch.org
Wed Nov 21 05:20:08 MST 2007


On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:30:45 +0500, "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only affected package on the LiveCD is libtheora-1.0alpha7, file
> lib/pp.c, lines 363 and 383. This piece of code does deringing of the
> image, thus, the effect is expected to be visible with anime and
> similar content.

Thanks Alexander.  That matches similar analysis at http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0711.2/1709.html where out of 1148 packages, only libtheora, nethack and xmms are possible triggers.  I'd therefore propose we just leave this until an upstream release fixes it.

Regards,

Matt.



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