On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I discovered an obscure bug which I am able to reproduce only under very > rare circumctances. Here are the instructions for re-producing it: > > Download > http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/obscure-bug.tar.gz > > Unpack and type make. Then type "source test.sh" at the command line and > press enter. Voila - a segfault. > > Now, "./test.sh" doesn't cause it.
this is imperative - 'source test.sh' causes it, but './test.sh' doesn't? > The program in question was written by > me (it's version 1.11.24 of Freecell Solver), and is compiled with the > "-O3" flag by gcc. If it's compiled with "-O2" it doesn't segfault. > Nor does it when compiled with kgcc. Moreover, after I made a very small > change in the program, it did not segfault either. Finally, running it > under gdb cause it not to crash either. > > I'm using Mandrake 8.1 with KDE 2.2.1 and all of the up-to-current > updates. My kernel is 2.4.13-12mdk from cooker. which gcc? it ran fine with gcc2.91.66, gcc2.95.2 and gcc3.0 (using 'source test.sh'). . -- mulix http://www.pointer.co.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
