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Date:      Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:27:42 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dropping compiler support in -current
Message-ID:  <20010817152742.B437@cicely20.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <9lj25s$1sq6$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:20:12PM %2B0000
References:  <20010817081929.A2859@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010817081147.DCEEA3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010817125220.A29953@cicely20.cicely.de> <9lj25s$1sq6$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:20:12PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de> wrote:
> 
> > I wasn't aware that alpha and -current is still such a big problem.
> 
> For the last few months, it used to crash on me about twice a week.
> My last build dates from 2001-08-11 and has been stable so far.
> 
> - Sound is broken, but I gather that's not specific to alpha.

Yes - there are severeal Mails on -current about hanging or stopping
after the first dma.

> - I'm seeing mysterious writes (kevent says NOTE_WRITE) to my
>   executables.  I suspect this is a VM bug.

I remember this but thought it happened on i386 for you?

> - Pthreads are broken.  Well, at least ports that rely on them fail.

If heard a lot about signal phaenomen that weren't alpha sepcific.
Is your problem alpha specific?

Nevertheless I'm about to judging one machine for a recent -current.

-- 
B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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