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However, if your program crashed on SPARC then it probably contains undefined behaviour. And if that's the case, then at any time a new GCC release might make it fail.



Indeed. And I'll fix it as soon as that happens ;) But I can't really fix something I can't reproduce. At least, I draw the line there if it requires massive changes. For example, how am I to know that my fixes won't introduce further undetectable problems? That last thing you want as a maintainer is to rely on one single user who reported a problem to help you out with testing and maintaining the fix forever..




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