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Date:      Fri, 2 Sep 2005 22:10:13 GMT
From:      "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To:        freebsd-eclipse@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/72014: Eclipse doesn't work (SigBus 10) if it has been built with GTK
Message-ID:  <200509022210.j82MADIB089785@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/72014; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net>
To: "Panagiotis Astithas" <past@ebs.gr>
Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, "Oleg Sharoiko" <os@rsu.ru>, nlsn@free.fr, bug-followup@freebsd.org, "Daniel Roethlisberger" <daniel@roe.ch>
Subject: Re: ports/72014: Eclipse doesn't work (SigBus 10) if it has been built with GTK
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:10:04 -0500

 On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:17:48 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> wrote:
 
 > On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:40:15 -0500, Panagiotis Astithas <past@ebs.gr>  
 > wrote:
 >
 >> I'm forwarding this to the people who are responsible for this.
 >>
 >> Daniel Roethlisberger wrote:
 >>> I have just double checked on my pentium-m box, I can confirm that
 >>> adding -mno-sse2 does solve the problem for me (at least as far as I  
 >>> can
 >>> tell, as there is no definitive way to reproduce the problem).
 >>>  Compiling x11-toolkits/gtk20 with CPUTYPE?=pentium-m and CFLAGS=-O  
 >>> -pipe
 >>> results in an unstable eclipse, while compiling gtk20 with the same
 >>> CPUTYPE but CFLAGS=-O -pipe -mno-sse2 saves the day, giving me a stable
 >>> eclipse.
 >>>  Can we add some kind of -mno-sse2 hack to the GTK port for the time
 >>> being, or is there a better solution?
 >>
 >>
 >> Some background:
 >>
 >> In PR ports/72014 it was reported a long time ago that eclipse/gtk  
 >> crashes and this was tracked down to non-standard compiler  
 >> optimizations when building gtk. There have been similar bug reports  
 >> filed against the eclipse and gcc bug databases. Some gcc people have  
 >> tracked it down to incorrect stack alignment (see ports/72014 for the  
 >> pointers) and have received reports that using -mno-sse2 fixed it.  
 >> Daniel has verified that this seems to help our case also.
 >
 > It's a nice find the locate that SSE2 is causing the problem.  
 > Mono/gtk-sharp have the same problems and we always have to tell them to  
 > not tweak the CPUTYPE. After look at our PR and GCC's PRs, looks like  
 > might be either GCC or our libc bug.
 >
 >> Therefore the question is, should we force -mno-sse2 to the compiler  
 >> flags for the gtk ports? I would expect less bug reports from people  
 >> who compile gtk apps with non-standard CFLAGS, at least.
 >
 > It's good idea, I would like to add -mno-sse2 too. Here's patch, so let  
 > me know if I don't understand it correct or/and my English isn't right.
 
 I have committed it in both MC and offical ports tree.
 
 Cheers,
 Mezz
 
 > http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/gtk20.diff
 >
 > Keep in mind, this patch is for MC. After that go in MC and I will put  
 > in offical one too.
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Mezz
 >
 >> Cheers,
 >>
 >> Panagiotis
 
 
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