From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Francois-Xavier Kowalski Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 08:36:20 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] SIGILL errors in strncpu (NAT consumption) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org David Mosberger wrote: >>>>>>On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 23:29:58 +0200 (MEST), Erich Focht said: >>>>>> > > Erich> I've seen NaT consumption faults with an ISV application in a > Erich> loop involving speculative loads, too. It was very hard to > Erich> trace back (occured at different simulation times in a huge > Erich> case) and disappeared after we rewrote the loop and used the > Erich> latest Intel Fortran compiler. It occured with both B3 and C0 > Erich> CPUs under 2.4.7 and 2.4.17. I don't have a testcase for > Erich> this, sorry. > >It's due to a glibc bug that was introduced last August when strncpy() >was rewritten. I sent a bug report (and preliminary patch) to the >author and am waiting to hear back. > Do you have the bug-report ID on GNATS? I am not able to find it in the database to known if it is being worked-out by the maintainer. FiX -- Francois-Xavier "FiX" KOWALSKI