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Re: ia64-linux kernel panics when running tests for recent GCC snapshots
- To: janis at us dot ibm dot com (Janis Johnson)
- Subject: Re: ia64-linux kernel panics when running tests for recent GCC snapshots
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:34:50 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> When I run the tests for GCC 3.0 snapshot 20010320 or 20010326 on IA-64
> Linux, the system panics. This seems to indicate a new bug in the
> compiler and a bug in the kernel.
It demonstrates a bug in the kernel (the kernel should never panic
in this situation), but all it says about the compiler is that something
has changed. This change may not be a compiler bug. (not that gcc
has any shortage of bugs, of course).
> Is the cause of this problem known? If not, is there some way that I
> can help track it down? The failures don't occur at the same place in
> the test suite.
Ask the kernel folks. No matter how buggy gcc may be, if you can panic
the kernel by just running the test suite it is their bug.