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Date:      Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:48:33 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Yoshihiro Koya <Yoshihiro.Koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org, fm@astral.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: buildworld broken in 4.3-RC?
Message-ID:  <20010326214833.A13267@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010327102038Q.koya@pluto.math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp>; from Yoshihiro.Koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:20:38AM %2B0900
References:  <20010327021150.A77643@astral.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> <20010327094548X.koya@pluto.math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp> <20010326164442.A10495@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010327102038Q.koya@pluto.math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp>

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On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:20:38AM +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote:

> This make world session was frequently prevented by such internal=20
> compiler error.  That cc was compiled with CPUTYPE=3Dk6-2.
> But I'm not suffered such a problem now.

The fact that it was failing in a different place each time is a very
strong indicator that it was hardware-related: compilers are pretty
deterministic beasts in what they do; given the same input they will
go through the same set of steps and produce the same output.  If this
was a bug in gcc, I'd expect it to fail in the same place each time
when it tries to compile the magic code.

Perhaps what you're seeing is a hardware fault which is only triggered
by the particular combination of instructions output by gcc with
-march=3Dk6, but I think the evidence is pretty strongly in favour of a
hardware fault of some kind.

Kris

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