On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:11:21PM +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:02:55PM -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> > > Initiliase all of the first_*_limit variables to zero, so that we can 
> > > actually
> > > raise limits beyond their defaults reliably.
> > 
> > How can a C-language global variable not be initialized to zero?
> 
> A gcc ia64 bug, possibly. I can't raise ThreadLimit without those
> changes.

Yep, it's a compiler bug, meddling with optimisations fixes it too.  I
don't see any harm in leaving the assignment in though.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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