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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 02:42:17 -0500
From: Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: "objtrm" problem probably found (was Re: Stuck in "objtrm")
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On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 08:12:52AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> What a nightmare. This must be due to egcs compiling things differently
> from gcc 2.7.1. ...

Yes, at least for the one case in vm_pageout_flush.  (I checked
the analogous code on a 3.x-STABLE system and it appears to be fine
for this case.)  I haven't looked for others.

	Alan

P.S. I plan to move the fix to 3.X-stable even if it appears
that the compiler is generating safe code.  There's really
no point in taking chances.


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