[Insight-developers] FEM debian test failures

[Bill Lorensen]

I agree that it is a gcc 4.7 issue My FEM patch also verified that.
gcc 4.7 handles the use of invalid pointers differently than earlier
gcc's. The 4.7 seems correct.

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:57:01AM -0400, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>> FEM tests are all passing on the debian dashboards today.
>
> Great.
>
>
>> We need someone to run the spatial object tests in a debugger to give us a hint.
>
> OK, I'll dig out my debugger...
>
> It seems likely that the problems are uncovered by the compiler gcc
> 4.7.  I created a third nightly build, Debian-sid-gcc4.6-64bit that
> has an identical configuration to Debian-sid-gcc4-64bit, except that
> the latter uses the gcc 4.7 compiler.  There are no failures in the
> 4.6 build.
>
> -S



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