RE: Grief with Dejagnu; Testing gcc 2.95.3.test4 on SCO OS5.0.4

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>Is this problem reproducible (i.e., does it crash at the same 
>place each time)?

  We can't even deduce anything for certain from that fact, the sig 11
problem is just horrible.  Sometimes it happens every time in the same
place, sometimes you restart your build and it sails past the point where
it crashes before.  If you then do a fresh build, sometimes it will bomb
at the same place and sometimes it won't.  Sometimes when it does
repeatedly crash in the same place it will stop happening if you reboot 
your machine, and sometimes it won't.

  I've had it happen to me in as simple a situation as applying a diff with
patch; neither the patch file nor the target file were particularly huge,
and I was entering the command directly at the shell, rather than at some
low much-forked level of a recursive make, and it would get to the last but
one hunk and sig11 every time.

  Then I edited the diff to move the failing hunk from the end of the patch
file to the beginning and it worked fine.  But I would find it hard to
believe it was reflecting a bug in a utility as simple as patch.

      DaveK
-- 
"Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit."  
  -- William S. Burroughs


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