[Various] libc/1161: Unable to get nscd to work on alpha

[H.J. Lu]

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> Hello,
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> On Sat, Jun 12, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
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> > 
> > Is there anything we can do to fix nscd on alpha?  I fear this is a
> > compiler bug:-(.  Richard, can you help?
> 
> It's an older bug which I have already send twice to the egcs people
> without getting an reaction.
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> egcs miscompiles the following lines from nscd/cache.c:
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>   /* Put the new entry in the first position.  */
>   do
>     newp->next = table->array[hash];
>   while (! compare_and_swap ((volatile long int *) &table->array[hash],
> 

I think egcs people believe the above code is buggy. There is a 
huge thread similar to this on the egcs mailing list.


H.J.