-fstack-check generates non-working code for at least a few compilers

-fstack-check generates non-working code for at least a few compilers
(egcs 1.1 included) and the benefits are dubious (your program is going to
crash anyways if you run out of stack) so comment that out for now.

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 71b671c90188aa48ca6039aabcd2ea5a84013437..d2ad3e556179d90eb0ef7b93caa43ec915294973 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -660,17 +660,17 @@ if test x"$have_threads" != xnone; then
                AC_MSG_WARN($FLAG_DOES_NOT_WORK))
        CPPFLAGS=$old_CPPFLAGS
                 
-       if test x"$GCC" = xyes; then    
-               # older gcc's do not know the -fstack-check option and will
-               # stop compiling, so just check this here 
-               old_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-               CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -fstack-check"
-               AC_TRY_COMPILE(,,
-                       G_THREAD_CFLAGS="$G_THREAD_CFLAGS -fstack-check")
-               CPPFLAGS=$old_CPPFLAGS
-       else
-               AC_MSG_WARN($THREAD_UNKNOWN_COMPILER)
-       fi
+#      if test x"$GCC" = xyes; then    
+#              # older gcc's do not know the -fstack-check option and will
+#              # stop compiling, so just check this here 
+#              old_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
+#              CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -fstack-check"
+#              AC_TRY_COMPILE(,,
+#                      G_THREAD_CFLAGS="$G_THREAD_CFLAGS -fstack-check")
+#              CPPFLAGS=$old_CPPFLAGS
+#      else
+#              AC_MSG_WARN($THREAD_UNKNOWN_COMPILER)
+#      fi
 
        AC_MSG_CHECKING(necessary compiler options)