Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:31:42 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Very important bug.. Message-ID: <20020915171435.I1742-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209141615070.82711-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Julian Elischer wrote: > Well to all 2 of you that would ever considering running > FreeBSD 1.1 binaries on -current anyhow... > > Everything goes along great until you hit a pid > 32768 > then everything stops > > apparently the code in libc in FreeBSD1.1 assumes that pids are < 32k > and CHECKS it.. :-) [It was a sign extension bug. There are also some sign exension bugs at the 2^32 boundary. E.g., olseek() silently truncates large offsets mod 2^32.] > My aim was to time a "make world" in a 1.1 jail under -current with > a modern machine. (just to see how much slower we've made everything) > > so Everything was screaming past at a very fast rate until: I guess it would be about twice as slow. Others made gcc a little more than twice as slow and we can only add a little to that, especially with only userland differences. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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