[ksh93-integration-discuss] ksh93/AMD64 crash caused by compilerbug ?

[Roland Mainz]

Glenn Fowler wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:58:49 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
> > A few days ago Mike Kupfer found a crash while trying to build the
> > ksh93-integration prototype on an AMD64 machine. The "make install"
> > target in usr/src/cmd/ksh/ runs the ksh93/AST test suite which crashed
> > in one of the test runs.
> 
> were the sh/fault.c and sh/io.c int vs. long patches posted 2006-08-04
> applied for the AMD64 test?

Yes, that patch is applied to the tree... otherwise 64bit SPARC would
crash. AFAIK the issue from 2006-08-04 will not affect AMD64 because it
doesn't enforce the natural alignment of datatypes via SIGBUS... :-)
... this seems to be a completely different problem.

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Bye,
Roland

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