Package: mozilla-browser Version: 2:1.7.12-1 Followup-For: Bug #321644
There's a web page at work that I use occasionally that triggers this bug every time. Recompiling with "-g -O" instead of "-g -O2" fixed it. Since changing the optimizer flags causes the crashes in question to disappear for me and apparently others as well, I think it's pretty clear we're talking about an optimizer bug here. Patches to the mozilla code probably aren't going to be as effective as simply changing the optimizer flags to something that's more reliable. Since a number of other platforms use -O and not -O2 (possibly for similar reasons), the most reasonable approach here is to use -O on the amd64 architecture. One other thing: this same optimization bug appears in gcc 3.4 as well (I attempted to compile mozilla using gcc 3.4 but ran into the same problem). So it's something that's been around a while. Anyone wanna file a bug against gcc on this? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-amd64-generic Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages mozilla-browser depends on: ii debconf 1.4.67 Debian configuration management sy ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-6 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libnspr4 2:1.7.12-1 Netscape Portable Runtime Library ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System printing extension ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii psmisc 21.9-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii xlibs 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime Versions of packages mozilla-browser recommends: ii mozilla-psm 2:1.7.12-1 The Mozilla Internet application s ii myspell-en-gb [myspell-dictio 1:2.0.1-2 English_british dictionary for mys ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dictio 1:2.0.1-2 English_american dictionary for my -- debconf information: mozilla/dsp: none mozilla/locale_auto: true * mozilla/prefs_note: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
