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Date:      Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:42:08 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: troubles with devel/icu on ia64
Message-ID:  <F6C995F9-D2F1-4F1F-A1B7-5F7BCA558352@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200609221334.44167.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
References:  <200609220016.07881@aldan> <5BAD2431-B9F5-42E6-BAA6-18FB5AF1CBAE@mac.com> <200609221334.44167.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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On Sep 22, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> =D0=BF'=D1=8F=D1=82=D0=BD=D0=B8=D1=86=D1=8F 22 =D0=B2=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=B5=D1=
=81=D0=B5=D0=BD=D1=8C 2006 13:29, Marcel Moolenaar =20
> =D0=BD=D0=B0=D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=81=D0=B0=D0=B2:
>>> What can possibly be wrong with FreeBSD/ia64? The library (and the
>>> tests) use threads aplenty...
>>
>> There are some threading related problems on ia64 that I've started
>> to work on before I went on vacation. Currently, libthr on -current
>> is broken due to locking problems and there are known cases where
>> threaded applications fail with a SIGSEGV when libpthread is being
>> used.
>
> Do these problems affect both FreeBSD-6 and -7? Because icu's self-=20
> tests crash
> on *both*.

Yes, the problems with libpthread exist on both -stable and -current.
The problems with libthr are specific to -current. This does not mean
that libthr on -stable doesn't have problems, because there seems to
be a fundamental problem with the atomic operations.

>> I hope to be able to fix that soon and I'll make sure that devel/icu
>> will be tested.
>
> Thank you very much. I'll suspend the hair-pulling. Unless the 6.x =20
> is supposed
> to work :-( Yours,

It may work on -stable with libthr. I can check it for you if you
like?

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com





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