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Steven N. Hirsch

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Nov 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/10/98
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All,

I had previously reported that (real, non-pre) 2.1.127 Ooopsed fatally
(and consistantly) at boot. After reading HJ's report about faulty code
generation, I rebuilt with gcc-2.7.2 (from RedHat Intel 5.1 distribution),
and it came up without incident!

My egcs level is currently 2.91.57 (release 1.1). This is absolutely the
first such problem I've seen in a year of using egcs.

Steve

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John Alvord

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Nov 10, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/10/98
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On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> All,
>
> I had previously reported that (real, non-pre) 2.1.127 Ooopsed fatally
> (and consistantly) at boot. After reading HJ's report about faulty code
> generation, I rebuilt with gcc-2.7.2 (from RedHat Intel 5.1 distribution),
> and it came up without incident!
>
> My egcs level is currently 2.91.57 (release 1.1). This is absolutely the
> first such problem I've seen in a year of using egcs.

Linus doesn't use egcs, so this is not surprising. When you use different
tools than the main developers, you are porting to a different
environment. So bugs are expected and normal.

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Steven N. Hirsch

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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, John Alvord wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:

> > I had previously reported that (real, non-pre) 2.1.127 Ooopsed fatally
> > (and consistantly) at boot. After reading HJ's report about faulty code
> > generation, I rebuilt with gcc-2.7.2 (from RedHat Intel 5.1 distribution),
> > and it came up without incident!
> >
> > My egcs level is currently 2.91.57 (release 1.1). This is absolutely the
> > first such problem I've seen in a year of using egcs.
>
> Linus doesn't use egcs, so this is not surprising. When you use different
> tools than the main developers, you are porting to a different
> environment. So bugs are expected and normal.

No doubt. I guess I've been leading a charmed life, then, being as this
was the first such bug that bit me.

I'm planning to steer well clear of the religous wars regarding compilers
and compiler design. I know enough about both to follow the discussions -
and enough about propriety to stay out of them myself.

Steve

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