Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Compiling with -O3 crashes ethereal

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:47:52 -0800
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 07:28:46PM +0100, Biot Olivier wrote:
> I successfully compiled the current CVS snapshot of Ethereal with -O3. It
> runs faster than with -O2 (about 15-30% faster).
> 
> I don't think the crash Thomas reported was due to -O3 compilation.

It might be that there's a bug in a particular code path that doesn't
show up at lower optimization levels (or shows up as something other
than a crash) and that only shows up with particular types of packets,
so it might show up with his captures but not the capture you have.