[reportlab-users] pyRXP - strange non-deterministic errors on python 2.7 and 64-bit Linux

[Tim Roberts]

Roger Whittaker wrote:

> One question I have is why this appeared so late in the day - I

> have been using pyRXP regularly on 64-bit Linux for several years,

> but this problem has only emerged with the latest Linux versions.  


My guess is that somebody slipped a clever optimization into the x86-64
gcc runtime library that triggered this behavior.

I have seen several instances in open source projects in general, and
gcc in particular, where a smug developer has intentionally inserted a
change that, although technically correct, breaks previously working
(but invalid) code.  "This'll teach the little buggers..."

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.