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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/16481: Cpp crashes frequently
Message-ID:  <200001311940.LAA87030@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR gnu/16481; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To: simonw@d2.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: gnu/16481: Cpp crashes frequently
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:31:45 +0200

 On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 04:07:55PM -0800, simonw@d2.com wrote:
 > 
 > When, for example, rebuilding the kernel, cpp crashes with a variety
 > of signals, sometimes SEGV or ABRT, at random times. The distribution
 > is CDROM from cheapbytes.com.
 > 
 This usually happens due to bad RAM chips.
 Can you replace them and try again?
 
 > setenv MALLOC_OPTIONS Z
 > 
 > This seems to indicate that cpp is assuming all malloced memory
 > is zeroed. With this fix kernel rebuilds correctly.
 > 
 Hmm, do you have /etc/malloc.conf?
 
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