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Re: glibc-2.0.95 causes ls -al & ps -aux to segfault.


>>>>> Byron Faber writes:

 > Ok,
 > After playing around:
 > gcc-2.8.1 seems to miscompile not only the tzset, but linuxthreads
 > won't pass a make check either.

 > After trying out the latest alpha egcs compiler, everything passes make
 > check.  [I don't know how much of this is my system, or oddities in
 > gcc 2.8.1.].

I just did [1] a complete compilation of the current glibc 2.1 sources
(which has the tzset patch and some other patches in it [2]).  I was
surprised [3] to get not a single failure during `make check'.

So, I'm clueless where your problems is.  If you know what's wrong,
please tell me.  It might be a problem of some i686 specific code that
you're running[4].  I'm running Linux 2.1.113 on i486 with 48MB.

Andreas

Footnotes: 
[1]  In general I'm using egcs snapshots.

[2]  Including some linuxthreads patches which are not tested very well.

[3]  That's the same results as I get from egcs but it remember that
     gcc was worse at some time.

[4]  glibc 2.0.95 optimizes for i686 - and perhaps gcc/egcs has also
     some special treatment.

-- 
 Andreas Jaeger   aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de    jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
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