Re: glibc-2.0.95 causes ls -al & ps -aux to segfault.

[Byron Faber <bfaber@ipinc.net>]

Ok,

After playing around:
gcc-2.8.1 seems to miscompile not only the tzset, but linuxthreads
won't pass a make check either.

After trying out the latest alpha egcs compiler, everything passes make
check.  [I don't know how much of this is my system, or oddities in
gcc 2.8.1.].

Now to find out if I can find/get patches/fix gdb-4.17 so that it
works with the linuxthreads stuff in 2.0.95.

Thanks for the pointers,
Byron

> >>>>> Byron Faber writes:
> 
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>  > Ok, My fault, at least in that it didn't pass make check:
> 
> If it doesn't pass `make check' I wouldn't install it at all and
> instead report it directly as bug.  Please always run `make check'
> before installing one of the glibc test releases.  Are there other
> failures during `make check'?
> 
> Your problem (just got your mail with the backtrace) looks like egcs
> miscompiled libc.  Zack has provided a patch for tzset - he said it
> only happens with egcs 1.0.3.  I'm using an egcs development version
> on ix86 without problems - and since your report also indicated one,
> I'm not sure if Zack's patch (send separatly) really helps.  You might 
> want to give it a try.
> 
> Please run just now the testsuite for the time files (`make
> timezone/tests time/tests').  Those tests will most probably fail.  I
> hope that after applying Zack's patch, the tests are
> successful. Please tell us in any case if those patches helped or not.
> 
> Andreas
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>  Andreas Jaeger   aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de    jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
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