boehm-gc test failure on sparc-linux

[Christian Jönsson]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:28:59AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Christian Jönsson <c.christian.joensson@telia.com>
>    Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:26:39 +0200
> 
>    kernel-image-2.2.20-sun4dm-smp     9
>    libc6                              2.2.5-3
> 
> Being that this works wonderfuly perfect as 32-bit binaries on my
> UltraSPARC system, I guarentee this is some kernel bug induced
> corruption on sun4m.

It seems as this boehm-gc problem on sparc32/linux is about
to be resolved by a patch to boehm-gc.

See

 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-04/msg00245.html
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-04/msg00246.html

and before in that thread....

Cheers,

/ChJ