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Date:      Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:47:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: i386 tinderbox failure
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021009094706.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021009162539.B4060-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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On 09-Oct-2002 Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
>> "David O'Brien" wrote:
>> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:55:36PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> > > Could you please just commit this on the vendor branch if it is the
>> > > ...
>> > Doing this screws up diffs to vendor source as there won't be a tag that
>> > corisponds with this across all files.  For small contribed things that
>> > is OK.  But when doing large ones it the following import+merge becomes
>> > harder.
>>
>> While that is true, it usually isn't all that big a deal if you are careful
>> and keep track of what you've done.  It is certainly better than causing
>> the file to leave the vendor branch for something you *know* is now in the
>> vendor tree.  And I think its better than leaving a known 'compiler crash'
>> case there to bite developers.
> 
> It doesn't bite me.  What am I doing wrong? :-)  I just turned of the
> -mcpu=pentiumpro pessimization before it affected anything.

It doesn't bite me either on any of my test machines.  It has to do with
what config options are in your kernel config file apparently as the bug
is a buffer overflow or some such.

-- 

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