Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:39:58 -0500 From: David Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: stable@freebsd.org, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, duhring@charter.net Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 Stable Compile Failure Message-ID: <00070718423800.00819@dave.uhring.com> In-Reply-To: <200007072317.QAA42847@vashon.polstra.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135041.00bff100@64.20.73.233> <00070620523100.08450@foo> <200007072317.QAA42847@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, John Polstra wrote:
> In article <00070620523100.08450@foo>, David Uhring
> <duhring@charter.net> wrote:
>
> > Suggest you look at the file with an editor like kwrite which
> > will color the text by syntax. I've several times found ???.c
> > files that had one character converted to something else, either
> > in TCP/IP transmission or tar -zxpf from the CD or maybe the file
> > is corrupted in the repository. For instance, one time, make
> > reported a missing endif; it was caused by a /* xxxxxxx */ showing
> > up as /* xxxxxxx j/. Last night when I tried a make buildworld
> > again, make reported a syntax error before '(' in line 121 of
> > /usr/src/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c. Where a space should have been
> > was an extraneous '('. Changed it to a space and made buildworld
> > just fine.
>
> You've got hardware problems. "*" and "j" are identical except for
> 1 bit. That's a classic sign of bad RAM or cache.
>
> John
> --
> John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
> John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
> "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa
It's been so many years since I did any assembly language programming, I forgot
most of ASCII. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll shut the box down and boot
up memtest-86 and let it run for a while.
Dave
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