hail marry (booting PowerMac 8600)

[VAUGHAN Jay]

On 02/03/2011 02:58 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> kevin diggs<diggskevin38@gmail.com>  writes:
>   >  Uh ... What does your gut tell you about whether this could be a
>   >  compiler bug?
> My gut tells me that it is very unlikely. However, compiler bugs have
> been known to happen.

I just want to encourage you guys to continue this discussion until some sort of 
meaningful conclusion can be made about what is going on with the differences;- such 
circumstances are precisely what some of us lurkers are here for.

My gut feeling is that the narrowing-down process is going to lead to such a conclusion, 
eventually, and that this will be a Eureka! moment for a few of us working on PPC-related 
work with gcc .. I can't contribute much else, but I am definitely watching this thread 
with interest and from my end I'll be looking at mesh.c today ..

(Not worth setting up gdb-kernel for this, to find out where exactly the hang is 
occurring?  Doesn't linux-ppc have a sysreq-like inline debugger, somewhere?)

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