bootstrap compare failure in ada/targparm.o on i686-pc-linux-gnu?

Dale Johannesen dalej@apple.com
Mon Apr 4 21:36:00 GMT 2005


On Apr 4, 2005, at 2:32 PM, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2005, Graham Stott <graham.stott@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> I do regular bootstraps of mainline all languages on FC3
>> i686-pc-linuux-gnu and haven't seen any problemss upto Friday. I'm
>> using --enable-checking=tree,misc,rtl,rtlflag which might make a
>> difference.
>
> I'm still observing this problem every now and then.  It's not
> consistent or easily reproducible, unfortunately.  I suspect we're
> using pointers somewhere, and that stack/mmap/whatever address
> randomization is causing different results.  I'm looking into it.

I've found 2 bugs over the last 6 months where the problem is exposed
only if two pointers happen to hash to the same bucket.  It's occurred
to me that doing a bootstrap with all hashtable sizes set to 1 might be
a good idea.



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