From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 16:42:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from front002.cluster1.charter.net (24-216-159-200.hsacorp.net [24.216.159.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2997F37BD6B; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from duhring@charter.net) Received: from [24.217.4.31] (HELO dave.uhring.com) by front002.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.4) with SMTP id 12595486; Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:41:44 -0400 From: David Uhring To: stable@freebsd.org, John Polstra , duhring@charter.net Subject: Re: 4.0 Stable Compile Failure Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 18:39:58 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: stable@freebsd.org References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706135041.00bff100@64.20.73.233> <00070620523100.08450@foo> <200007072317.QAA42847@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <200007072317.QAA42847@vashon.polstra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00070718423800.00819@dave.uhring.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, John Polstra wrote: > In article <00070620523100.08450@foo>, David Uhring > wrote: > > > Suggest you look at the file with an editor like kwrite which > > will color the text by syntax. I've several times found ???.c > > files that had one character converted to something else, either > > in TCP/IP transmission or tar -zxpf from the CD or maybe the file > > is corrupted in the repository. For instance, one time, make > > reported a missing endif; it was caused by a /* xxxxxxx */ showing > > up as /* xxxxxxx j/. Last night when I tried a make buildworld > > again, make reported a syntax error before '(' in line 121 of > > /usr/src/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c. Where a space should have been > > was an extraneous '('. Changed it to a space and made buildworld > > just fine. > > You've got hardware problems. "*" and "j" are identical except for > 1 bit. That's a classic sign of bad RAM or cache. > > John > -- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa It's been so many years since I did any assembly language programming, I forgot most of ASCII. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll shut the box down and boot up memtest-86 and let it run for a while. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message