[Bug 1243656] Re: [regression] tar testsuite failure seen when built with gcc-4.8 Linaro

[Christophe Lyon]

Reverting commit 197526 makes the test pass.
Now investigating the code generation differences to see if that patch can be fixed or if it should be reverted.

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Title:
  [regression] tar testsuite failure seen when built with gcc-4.8 Linaro

Status in Linaro GCC:
  New
Status in “gcc-4.8” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “tar” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On arm-linux-gnueabihf GNU tar 1.27 fails the test

    114: time: tricky time stamps                        FAILED
  (time01.at:23)

  when built with gcc-4.8 Linaro, checked with both the 09 and 10 releases.
  works with FSF GCC 4.8.2,
  works with gcc-4.7 Linaro.
  works with GCC 4.8 Linaro without optimization (-O0, fails with both -O1 and -O2)

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