On Jul 4, 2013, at 04:43, J David <j.david.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are seeing strange problems building the kernel on 9-STABLE. The > problem is intermittent and will go away if we build enough times in a row > without making any changes. > > > The problem seems to be that the usbdevs.h file (which appears to be > automatically generated) gets random NULL bytes in it. ... > On the second failure posted below I took a hex dump of the usbdevs.h file. > I don't see any NULLs at the target location, which is an empty line. > (Just 0a 0a for the empty line.) In fact there are no nulls anywhere in > the file.
So the actual file does *not* have any NUL characters in it? What happens if you run e.g. sha1(1) over it a million times? If there are NUL characters, there might be a bug in the awk script that generates usbdevs.h. If there are no NUL characters, and you get a random failure each time, there might be a bug in clang. But did you mean you also saw it with gcc? -Dimitry _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
