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On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 15:19, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> I was hitting the same thing on a Netfinity 8500R/x370.  The problem 
>> was an old compiler (egcs 2.91-something).  It was triggered by a few 
>> different things, including kernprof and dcache_rcu.

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 05:34:32PM -0500, Paul Larson wrote:
> Well, it was a redhat box.  Just to be certain, I made sure to use kgcc
> and it still hung on boot, but kgcc is egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> (egcs-1.1.2 release).  If it would be helpful, I'll try compiling my
> kernel on a debian box tomorrow and booting with that.

ISTR this compiler having code generation problems. I think trying to
reproduce this with a working i386 compiler is in order, e.g. debian's
2.95.4 or some similarly stable version.


Cheers,
Bill
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