Strange behavior

[Richard Henderson]

On Mon, Nov 10, 1997 at 04:35:49PM -0500, jackson@msrce.howard.edu wrote:
> Second, but more important, when I did a make check, something strange
> happened.  I did a 'make bootstrap-lean >& logfile;make check >& results &'
> and went to sleep Saturday night.  Monday at school I noticed that make
> check was still running and a ps ux gave me:
> 
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TT  S    STARTED         TIME COMMAND
> jackson  15154 98.0  0.2 1.73M 208K ??  R      Nov 09  1-07:50:06 /tmp/a.out

You didn't say what platform you are running on. 

But I've seen this before on an Alpha; I believe it to be fixed by
the patch I just posted to egcs under the title "sjlj eh fixes" or
somesuch.


r~