On 10/3/12 18:40 , Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> Matthieu Herrb <matth...@herrb.eu> writes:
> 
>   Since I couldn't reproduce test errors on my local machine running the
>   development version of OpenBSD 5.1, I'll probably ugrade gcc64 again
>   to what is going to be OpenBSD 5.1. (even if not formally released,
>   the binary sets that are going to make the final release are already
>   available).
> 
> This is hardly gcc problem.  It would be very surprising if it is not a
> kernel problem.
> 
> OK, it could be a hardware problem, but the exact same thing happens on
> a different OpenBSD 5 system I've tried.  It could be a C library
> problem, but the intermittence speaks against that.
> 
> Last, it could be bugs in the failing software.  I did a lot of code
> staring on the relevant GMP code, and feel very confident it is correct.
> That particular code has not changed for about 10 years, and has been
> used on many systems without problems, including OpenBSD prior to 5.0.
> 
> Since others now report the same type of problems with other software,
> the likelihood that this ia an OpenBSD problem is very high.
> 

Yes, I think it could be a kernel problem. Iirc similar problems where
fixed during the 5.1 development cycle, but I couldn't find any firm
confirmation of this, except that I can't reproduce it.

When I talks about upgrading gcc64, I was meaning upgrading the whole
system on the machine, not only gcc.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb

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