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  8.                     Base Development 7.3 Release Notes
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  73.                     5.  _B_u_g_f_i_x_e_s
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  75.                     This chapter provides lists of bugs that have
  76.                     been fixed since the 7.2.1 release.
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  79.                     5.1  _L_i_n_k_e_r__B_u_g_s__F_i_x_e_d
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  81.                     440743   linker_elspec: produces improper syntax
  82.                              in the file created by elsmap.
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  84.                     480126   linker_messg: linker warning
  85.                              suppression does not work.
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  87.                     562631   App CATIA: ld 7.2 behavior is different
  88.                              from that of 7.1.
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  90.                     597895   -nofilt option dropped from 7.2.1/7.2
  91.                              C++.
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  93.                     634848   ld does not warn for weak and strong
  94.                              symbols of different types.
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  96.                     635821   Loader does not produce error for
  97.                              mutliply defined externals.
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  99.                     640754   GOT-related internal link error occurs
  100.                              at SDRC.
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  102.                     651552   ld -y flag is broken.
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  104.                     662613   GP-relative sections overflow occurs.
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  106.                     682305   ipa adds new libraries to link line.
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  109.                     5.2  _C_o_m_p_i_l_e_r__D_r_i_v_e_r__B_u_g_s__F_i_x_e_d
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  111.                     578517   Improved driver warning requested.
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  113.                     634327   -ignore_suffix switch does not work on
  114.                              C compiler.
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  116.                     676590   The driver moves -notall and it should
  117.                              not.
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  139.                     5.3  _A_s_s_e_m_b_l_e_r__B_u_g_s__F_i_x_e_d
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  141.                     640808   When .size directive is used, code
  142.                              compiled with gcc shows the wrong
  143.                              sizes.
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  145.                     654254   App CATIA : ucode O2 floating point
  146.                              registers lost.
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  149.                     5.4  _B_a_c_k_-_e_n_d__B_u_g_s__F_i_x_e_d
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  151.                     666477, 666480 Compiler omits OpenMP parallel
  152.                              regions from the DWARF.
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  154.                     676177   PLOC_total_size gives incorrect value
  155.                              for non-compound parameters.
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  157.                     681230   An assumed size flag is needed in
  158.                              DWARF.
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  160.                     640443   Subroutines with >8 arguments are
  161.                              sometimes not built properly.
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  163.                     651049   Incorrect DWARF frame information in
  164.                              libm.so file breaks stack unwind.
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  166.                     581245   Back end runs out of virtual space.
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  168.                     672213   Floating point comparisons with NANs
  169.                              should not be moved at -O2.
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  171.                     677665   -TENV:X behaviour in 7.2 release
  172.                              differs from that of 7.3 release.
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  174.                     612063   App CATIA: trap generated instead of
  175.                              fpe.
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  177.                     627679   Compiler bug found on Origin system.
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  179.                     646495   -CG option deletes istore incorrectly.
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  181.                     667956   [ORACLE] incorrect exceptions occured
  182.                              with cast of double to unsigned long
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  185.                     614503   Assertion failure occurs when both the
  186.                              -O3 and -static flags are used.
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  188.                     654462   Integer pointer corruption gives
  189.                              different results with -O2 than with
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  207.                     656200   Segmentation fault occured in Global
  208.                              Optimization -- New PRE: Rename phase.
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  210.                     681600   -OPT:alias=restrict option fails to
  211.                              result in blocked cache.
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  213.                     647023   A pointer to volatile memory was
  214.                              assigned to a pointer to non-volatile
  215.                              memory.
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  217.                     679383   bind 8.2 does not compile on 7.2.1.3m
  218.                              with IPA enabled.
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  220.                     566202   C++ inlining yields worse loop
  221.                              performance.
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  223.                     645638   PERF critial customer code is failing
  224.                              with inlining.
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  226.                     661384   IPA is causing a segmentation fault
  227.                              when ld32 is used.
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  229.                     661392   IPA process aborts in ld32.
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  231.                     517928   -IPA:inline=ON option is not
  232.                              dereferencing pointers.
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  234.                     571253   Incorrect answers are generated when
  235.                              subroutines are inlined.
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  237.                     631632   Incorrect branch was taken in code
  238.                              after optimization.
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  240.                     646717   Signal: Segmentation fault occured in
  241.                              Loop Nest Optimizer phase.
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  243.                     653089   Outer fusion reordering bug occured.
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  245.                     674949   PERF: loss of unrolling causes 60%
  246.                              slowdown.
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