RE: Why is parula failing?

> ... in connection with which, I can't help noticing that parula is using a very old compiler:
>
> configure: using compiler=gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-17)
>
> From some quick checking around, that would have to be near the beginning of aarch64
> support in RHEL (Fedora hadn't promoted aarch64 to a primary architecture until earlier
> that same year).  It's not exactly hard to believe that there were some lingering compiler bugs.

> I wonder why parula is using that when its underlying system seems markedly newer (the kernel at least has a recent
builddate). 

Parula used GCC v7.3.1 since that's what came by default.
I've now switched to GCC v13.2 and triggered a run. Let's see if the tests stabilize now.
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Robins