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

[Christophe Lyon]

Committed revert of 197526 as 204671, so that the tests pass with our next release.
More time needed to actually fix the original patch, and to look more carefully at tar's code.

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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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