Re: Bug#824449: firefox: FTBFS on sparc64 due to wrong platform definitions

2018-05-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 08:49:41PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi! > > With Firefox 60.0 ESR now in experimental, most of the sparc64-related patches > are now part of the upstream source. > > The only patches we actually need are the one to fix skia on big-endian > targets > (I

Re: Possible bug in GCC 5, need help

2015-08-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:17:27PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 05:44:42 -0400 (EDT), Mike Hommey wrote: ... The current version of Iceweasel in unstable fails to build because of an internal error in the javascript engine which looks like it could be caused by some

Possible bug in GCC 5, need help

2015-08-15 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, The current version of Iceweasel in unstable fails to build because of an internal error in the javascript engine which looks like it could be caused by some miscompilation. The same Iceweasel version doesn't exhibit the problem when compiled on stretch. An easier way to reproduce than to

Re: Differences between zelenka and zandonai

2010-11-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:42:39PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:51:36AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: During the build, this is what happens: INFO | negative control allocated at 0x40028000 INFO | positive control allocated at 0x4002a000 INFO | poison area assumed

Differences between zelenka and zandonai

2010-10-31 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, Firefox uses a technique they call frame poisoning to mitigate dangling pointer bugs. It reserves a poison area at a fixed location in the address space (and tries other places if that can't be done) and makes dangling pointers point there so that the application ends up crashing instead of

Re: Differences between zelenka and zandonai

2010-10-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:38:06AM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: Mike, am Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:54:10AM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: Firefox uses a technique they call frame poisoning to mitigate dangling pointer bugs. It reserves a poison area at a fixed location in the address

Re: Future of the s390 port

2009-09-03 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:32:14AM +0200, Martin Grimm wrote: So as long as there is no easy manual way to provide anonymized figures without installing software on our production servers we can't deliver such

Re: Sparc release requalification

2009-08-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:33:32PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:55:24PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: On 19.08.2009 13:42, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:16:36PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: I did speak with Martin Zobel at Debconf on how to get

Re: GCC 4.2 transition

2007-07-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:33:01AM +0200, Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:16 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Does any port still need to stick with GCC 4.1 for a while? Feedback from hppa, mips*, s390, powerpc, amd64, i386 porters doesn't show objections