From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: For discussion of SYSLINUX and tftp-hpa <syslinux@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Sahil Rihan <srihan@vmware.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Virtualization Mailing List <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [syslinux] Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:14:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B4DE17.7070108@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B48ADF.9050006@vmware.com>
Zachary Amsden wrote:
>
> It was 2.6.21.4, so it is fairly recent, but with 32-bit decompress
> stage. GCC was 4.2.0.
>
> Sounds like a gcc bug, to me.
>
I would argue that anything that causes a function and its callsite to
diverge, when they're part of the same file, is a gcc bug almost by
definition.
That doesn't mean it's not a problem and that there is not a solution --
if nothing else there should be a patch for -stable.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-04 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 23:44 Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls? H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 0:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 0:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 0:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 0:27 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-21 0:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 21:54 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-06-22 2:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-22 2:34 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-06-22 3:09 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-08-04 4:48 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 9:24 ` Andi Kleen
2007-08-04 12:08 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 14:19 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-08-04 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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