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From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk>
To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>
Cc: "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>, Michel Lanners <mlan@cpu.lu>,
	debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:59:39 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010223213706.8247B-100000@gamma.statslab.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01022316292300.06063@localhost>


On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>
> Here is a quick and dirty way to test.  Move both double parameters to the
> beginning of the function and caller and the problem should go away.
>
> Another solution is to include a "dummy" int variable in both the caller
> and the function right before the double parameter "unit".  That dummy will
> fill a stack slot and force any messed up double alignment issue to become
> moot.
>

The second fix got it past the call to printtree(). Then it crashed when
calling another function, printcols(), which I fixed with the first fix.
This allowed it to run without crashing, but the resultant output was
obviously wrong, with what could have been a related bug.

Anyway, I think this proves that your hypothesis was correct.

> If either of those workarounds work, then please pass all of this info to
> Franz Sirl's attention on the gcc@gcc.gnu.org site and he can use it to
> track down the messed up code. It the workarounds fix things, this is a
> definite bug
>

You said these were mostly fixed in the 2.95.3 series. The original bug
filer is using 2.95.2. Should I still file a bug? Or has someone got a
nightly build or something that they could test it on first, in case it's
already been fixed?

--
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-23 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20010223195620.F4145@wonderland.linux.it>
2001-02-23 20:46 ` Bug#86356: analog: analog segfaults Stephen Turner
2001-02-23 21:29   ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-02-23 21:59     ` Stephen Turner [this message]
2001-02-23 22:44       ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-02-23 22:10     ` Andrew Sharp
2001-02-23 23:30       ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2001-03-02 10:29         ` Stephen Turner
     [not found]         ` <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010302101639.19312B-100000@gamma.statslab.c am.ac.uk>
2001-03-02 12:07           ` Franz Sirl
2001-03-03 15:19             ` Matthias Klose

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