Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Simon Strandman <simon.strandman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o, Jan Jitse Venselaar <janjitse@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc.
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 10:30:46
Message-Id: 42F8857B.1030700@telia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: x86_64 optimization patches for glibc. by Jan Jitse Venselaar
1 Jan Jitse Venselaar skrev:
2
3 >As the reporter of the problem with nano, I'd like to make 1 correction to
4 >this report: Recompiling nano and its depencies did not fix the crashes. It
5 >just fixed the eating of the file.
6 >I did not recompile my entire system, but a crash of such a small and basic
7 >app as nano made me not want to do this outside of a chroot, which I
8 >currently do not have the means for.
9 >I reread my report, and I saw it was not clear that recompiling nano and its
10 >dependencies did not fix the crashes. Sorry for the confusion.
11 >
12 >Jan Jitse
13 >
14 >
15 I have a theory about the nano problem. Could you please try with nano
16 1.2.5 instead and see if it still craches?
17
18 I believe this might be a bug in nano 1.3.X and not a problem with the
19 amd64 strings patch, it just exposes the bug. Nano 1.3.8 running under
20 Suse 9.3 suffers from exactly the same problem (craching when
21 searching). But if I downgrade it to 1.2.5 it's completly stable. And
22 1.3.X is actually the unstable development branch of nano while 1.2.X is
23 the stable so it could very well contain bugs.
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