[m-rev.] trivial diff: workaround cygwin C compiler bug

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Jan-2003, Mark Brown <dougl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> When compiled with '--opt-space', the following module exposes what appears
> to be a bug in the cygwin C compiler installed on hermes.  The symptom is
> that walking up the stack to retrieve the caller's label layout sometimes
> returns the wrong layout.  Under mdb, the call event for the first call
> to a/2 reports the calling context as line 11, which is correct.  However,
> the call event for the second call to a/2 reports the same calling context,
> when in fact the context should be line 13.

What makes you think this is a bug in the C compiler?

Have you reported the bug to the GCC developers?

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