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

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:51:11 -0800
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:47:52AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> 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.

...although the crash occurred when dissecting an Ethernet header, so
it's not as simple as that.  (Perhaps it's a compiler bug in the
compiler he has but not the one you have?)