Comment 2 for bug 1330270

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peter green (plugwash) wrote :

It doesn't entirely surprise me that gcc has bugs on armv6 hardfloat since afaict it's a little used configuration, nor does it surprise me that 4.7 fixes some bugs that were in 4.6

having said that I don't think there is much we can do from the raspbian end. Changing the default compiler may fix some bugs but it may cause others and so it's out of the question for a stable release of raspbian (and probablly even for a testing release of raspbian but that's kinda academic since raspbian jessie is already on 4.8 and will probablly be on 4.9 in the not too distant future)

Theres also the problem that even if a targetted fix was available we don't have any resources to review it. So we would likely only accept it if it had been signed off by some reasonablly prominent gcc person. Given that the 4.6 branch has been abandoned upstream that seems unlikely.

if the issue related to an application that was in raspbian we could alter the packaging for that one application to use a non-default compiler but afaict freeswitch is not in debian or raspbian.