From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.10: SPARC64 mapped figure goes unsignedly negative...
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:30:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sm4hwr81.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501311256580.5368@goblin.wat.veritas.com> (Hugh Dickins's message of "Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:04:55 +0000 (GMT)")
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins suggested tentatively:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Nix wrote:
>> /proc/meminfo on my UltraSPARC IIi:
>> Mapped: 18446744073687883208 kB
>>
>> (This kernel is compiled with GCC-3.4.3, which might be relevant.)
>
> Indeed: sparc64 gcc-3.4 seems to be having trouble with that
> since 2.6.9: we've been persuing it offlist, I'll factor you in.
Excellent; thank you!
(2.6.10 seems to *run* perfectly well on that box, for what it's worth;
unless this is a symptom of some underlying dark and terrible failure,
it looks like a not-very-important cosmetic bug.)
--
`Blish is clearly in love with language. Unfortunately,
language dislikes him intensely.' --- Russ Allbery
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-30 17:04 2.6.10: SPARC64 mapped figure goes unsignedly negative Nix
2005-01-31 13:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-31 15:30 ` Nix [this message]
2005-01-31 16:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-31 16:13 ` Nix
2005-01-31 17:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-31 17:31 ` Nix
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