> Mainly it's a schedule-driven thing. I don't want to take any risk that
> a last-minute patch to work around AIX's broken compiler will break any
> other platforms. If we had found this problem before beta cycle
> started, I would be more willing to say "let's try it and find out
> whether it works everywhere".
>
> Yeah, it's paranoia, but considering that the whole thing is an exercise
> in covering up a "shouldn't happen" compiler bug, I think paranoia is
> not so unreasonable.
Thank you for going to all that trouble !! The fix, as it is in RC1 works great
on AIX with both xlc and gcc.
Andreas
