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This appears also to be part of a larger problem. egcs included with RedHat 6 optimizes a function in such a way that called from certain places, the return value is smashed. This causes Pine to correctly report to the local user that a file is of one MIME type, but end up attaching it as the default for the type. (E.g. text/* becomes text/plain, etc.) To reproduce this bug, compile Pine from the SRPM on RedHat 6 with egcs-1.1.2-13 (RPM, egcs --version shows 2.91.66). This bug ALSO occured on a Linux 1.2.x system using gcc-2.7.2 on RedHat 3.0.3 (just to show it's apparently a long-standing bug). Adding a sleep(0) call above the return in the problematic function is a solution to this problem. See the attached URL. While this should probably be fixed in PINE in the short-term, long term it probably points to something needing to be seen to in egcs. IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT THIS BUG OCCURED WITH ALL OPTIMIZATIONS OFF.
Egcs counterpart to this bug is #3978
Sorry, I just like being kept in the loop on bugs I report :)
*** Bug 3978 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This appears also to be part of a larger problem. egcs included with RedHat 6 optimizes a function in such a way that called from certain places, the return value is smashed. This causes Pine to correctly report to the local user that a file is of one MIME type, but end up attaching it as the default for the type. (E.g. text/* becomes text/plain, etc.) To reproduce this bug, compile Pine from the SRPM on RedHat 6 with egcs-1.1.2-13 (RPM, egcs --version shows 2.91.66). This bug ALSO occured on a Linux 1.2.x system using gcc-2.7.2 on RedHat 3.0.3 (just to show it's apparently a long-standing bug). Adding a sleep(0) call above the return in the problematic function is a solution to this problem. See the attached URL. While this should probably be fixed in PINE in the short-term, long term it probably points to something needing to be seen to in egcs. IT IS WORTH NOTING THAT THIS BUG OCCURED WITH ALL OPTIMIZATIONS OFF. This bug has been logged against Pine as well. ------- Additional Comments From jtraub@dragoncat.net 07/10/99 06:37 ------- Pine counterpart bug is #3977
I managed to attach text/html parts just fine in pine. I guess that whatever you are seeing is the normal behavior of pine, which is trying to do an autotranslation to text/plain for you. If egcs would have behaved this way a lot of other things will break badly on the system.