Re: how to freeze 2.1.125, finally

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 12:06:25 -0400

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <linux@microsoft.sucks.eu.org> said:
> 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.

For the present application, this shouldn't make any difference: Even if
crashme doesn't work as expected, it still brings the machine down ;-)

It would be useful to see what it's generating.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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