From: Torbjorn Granlund <t...@gmplib.org>
Subject: Re: [Gcc-cfarm-users] gcc64 upgraded to OpenBSD 5.0
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:50:01 +0100

> Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes:
> 
>   At least GMP seems to be affected:
>   
> A simple tests/devel/try mpn_mul_1 in gmp fails within a few minutes.
> When it does, things are severely clobbered.
> 
> There is some evidence that the kernel clobbers floating point
> registers, since the bug seems to go away if the GMP code that makes
> heavy use of floats is disabled.  I have not been able to trigger it
> with tests checking stack consistency.

I can confirm that this system runs eratically and produces random
errors.  Trying to build a Scheme interpreter/compiler[1] generates
executables that fail consistently but in an unreproducible manner.


cheers,
felix


[1] http://www.call-cc.org/

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