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Re: confusing "bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem" message
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Basile Starynkevitch <basile at starynkevitch dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:11:44 +0200
- Subject: Re: confusing "bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem" message
- References: <20120924110126.GA8242@hector.lesours>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Basile Starynkevitch
<basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> When a plugin calls fatal_error, the compilation naturally fails,
> but the last error message is misleading, it says
> (while getting a bug in the MELT plugin for example)
>
>
> cc1: fatal error: MELT plugin module compilation failed (512) in /home/basile/tmp for command make -s -f /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/plugin/melt-module-0.9.7-rc1.mk GCCMELT_MODULE_SOURCEBASE=/tmp/filegInaXb-GccMeltTmp-e6c45b3/MELTrun0001_eXt GCCMELT_MODULE_BINARYBASE=/tmp/filegInaXb-GccMeltTmp-e6c45b3/MELTrun0001_eXt MELTGCC_BUILD_WITH_CXX=YesPlugin GCCMELT_CFLAGS=-I\ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/plugin/melt-headers/0.9.7-rc1\ -I\ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/plugin/include\ -I\ /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/plugin/include/c-family\ \ -DIN_GCC\ -DMELT_IS_PLUGIN\ -O GCCMELT_MODULE_WORKSPACE=/tmp/filegInaXb-GccMeltTmp-e6c45b3/ GCCMELT_MODULE_FLAVOR=runextend melt_module
> compilation terminated.
> The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
>
> This last sentence is very confusing. I would like to replace it with e.g.
>
> The bug is not reproducible, so it could be a plugin, hardware or OS problem
>
> But I didn't find that string with grep on GCC trunk's source files.
>
> Where does that message come from?
It comes from your distributor who patched GCC.
Richard.
> Regards.
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