Re: heap corruption in du

[Paul Eggert]

Mikulas Patocka <address@hidden> writes:

> The compilation gets a bit further with the patch, but it still
> doesn't work --- this time it is problem of intel compiler --- it
> can't extract its intercode from *.a files.

The Intel compiler mishandles static libraries?  That sounds like
a real compatiblity issue all right.

> You can modify libtool so that when it is creating static library and
> compiler is "icc" or "icpc" (or "some/path/icc" or "some/path/icpc"),
> it passes it -no-ipo switch. (dynamic libraries work fine with -ipo).

But coreutils does not use libtool, no?  So this wouldn't fix
the problem.

Perhaps this issue would need to be taken up with the libtool folks,
but that should go to bug-libtool.