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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 1997 22:32:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@sdf.com>
To:        Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: supermicro p6sns/p6sas 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971004223014.18544A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710050255.UAA07165@obie.softweyr.ml.org>

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On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Wes Peters wrote:

> tom@sdf.com writes:
>  >   Yes, I was just thinking about that.  If gcc is randomly dying on older
>  > K6 processors, is it actually producing correct object code when it
>  > doesn't crash?
> 
> Yes.  It is producing correct code when it crashes, too.  It just jumps
> to the wrong address, which quickly leads to a crash.

  And that isn't going to lead to incorrect object code?  I would not be
that confident.  It seems to that such a bug will eventually lead to
situation where it makes a incorrect jump but doesn't crash.

...
> happening inside the chips than you do inside the FreeBSD VM management
> code.

  Hehe... making some assumptions again!  

> -- 
>           "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
> 
> Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
> http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com
> 
> 

Tom




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