From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 25 07:16:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA18593 for current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA18588 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 07:16:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA01047; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:16:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA27098; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:16:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:16:09 -0700 Message-Id: <199711251516.IAA27098@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Nate Williams , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler Bug??? In-Reply-To: <199711250655.RAA00340@word.smith.net.au> References: <199711250603.XAA25821@mt.sri.com> <199711250655.RAA00340@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Guess what, you have bad memory! Seriously, this is not a compiler bug, > > but something in your hardware that is hosed up. Either the memory is > > bad, the timings are bad, the cache is bad, or some combination of the > > above is bad. Compiler bugs don't go away on reboots, but corrupted > > memory does. > > ... just to clarify here, as I am reading Simon slightly differently > from you; > > - code built while running UP works. > - code built while running SMP fails. Actually, code built while running SMP was failing, but causing a boot into UP caused it to work, and then going back to SMP caused it to still work. > I'm inclined to agree with Nate in that it's unlikely that you have > found a compiler bug, more likely an environment (eg. kernel) bug that > is causing you some serious grief. Nate