Re: how to freeze 2.1.125, finally

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer (linux@microsoft.sucks.eu.org)
Sat, 10 Oct 1998 20:50:14 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Ragnar Hojland wrote:

> Well, some days ago I posted about a frozen 2.1.124. So I tried everything
> back and forth trying to reproduce the lockup. Ended up playing with crashme
> If you compile crashme with egcs 1.1b, with -O6 -g, and run it (obviously
> as non root), with +2000.0 7191 2 , it locks up. Why the -O6 makes a
> difference, I have no idea.. anyone mind illustrating me?

egcs has a few bugs that can lead to miscompilation with optimizations > -O2

Use -O2 rather than -O6; shouldn't be much slower, but more reliable.

LLaP
bero

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