Re: sparse segfault on ppc64.

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:03:54AM -0700, Christopher Li wrote:
 > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:33:44AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
 > > Segfault is new (which version?); the fscking mess in altivec is not, but
 > > it (a) doesn't depend on host sparse is ran on; (b) shouldn't lead to
 > > segfaults.  Altivec extensions are undocumented and fortunately used only
 > > in one place in the tree.  You should get sparse errors, but it shouldn't
 > > die on those.
 > 
 > I think the segfault is likely to cause by my recent change in the parser.
 > 
 > Dave, can you get a backtrace of the segfault? Even better if you can
 > give me a small test case which I can reproduce it on x86.

I did battle with our ppc64 buildhost last night to try and coax it
into giving me a coredump, no luck. And as I don't have gcc in that
chroot, I couldn't build it natively.  Given this is altivec stuff,
I didn't try building it on x86. At which point I admitted defeat
and turned in for the night ;)

I'll see if I can force it into something buildable on x86 later,
but first I'll see if I can get a useful shell on that buildhost
that I can run gcc & gdb in.

	Dave
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